Rich Quotes - Page 40

• I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

  Saul Williams

  Dream, Art, Kings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Doors, Wings

  "God’s Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2005.

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• Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, America

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Orchids

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• What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

  George Carlin

  Data, Brain, Mind

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Strong, Four, Violin

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• One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Commit

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  Greg Graffin

  Balance, Trying, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

  Anne Waldman

  Ideas, Language, Tropes

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

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• I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Doors, Opening

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Girl, Men, Guy

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Butterfly, Mean

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but we are experiencing a biologically rich world compared to what the future will look like. Bearing witness to that is a beautiful gift.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Beautiful, Looks, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent change. It also means to respect the freedom of everybody, and to not accept big organizations or rich, powerful people holding power.

  Costa-Gavras

  Powerful, Mean, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Want

  "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams", www.nbcnews.com. September 17, 2007.

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• I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV broadcasters but because they had been sued by McDonald's in the past none of them would commission me so I ended up making it by credit cards and rich boyfriends (I'm joking - about the boyfriends).

  Franny Armstrong

  Past, Mcdonalds, Cards

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  People, Fiction, Poverty

  Source: slushpile.net

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• The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Humble, Simple, Attention

  Source: slushpile.net

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• The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Practice, Doe, Socialism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Insecure, Feelings, Young

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous-the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Evil

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• What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Grandma, Special

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• By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Powerful, Mean

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Dad, Business

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