Wealthy Quotes - Page 14

• What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Mean, Rude

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• Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Silly, Ivy, Hats

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

  George W. Bush

  Together, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Years, Law

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.19, Random House

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• Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Father, Men, Fire

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• If a guy married a woman and the guy was more famous, the world wouldn't deem it an inequal relationship. But if you have a guy marrying a woman who is more well-known, more, in quotes, "powerful," more wealthy, then there's a kind of reverse sexism that comes out, right?

  Kevin Federline

  Powerful, Guy, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only American gospel or soul music, it's whenever somebody decides to do music in a way that's honest and passionate. I got into the Motown songs. It had to do with where I come from - we don't really have that where I come from, the sense of mystery and the pain. Sweden has been a wealthy and happy country for some time now. I think I got really drawn to that.

  Erik Hassle

  Country, Song, Pain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, People, Being Free

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• Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.

  John Foxe

  Men, Small Numbers, People

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• I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

  Dean Baker

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You know, compromise can't be a dirty word in American politics. There's plenty to argue about. Trump administration is still talking about ridiculous tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy. That should be resisted with every fiber of our being.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dirty, Cutting, Ridiculous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Judging, Would Be

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I don't think most Americans understand that, for certain very wealthy people, our federal income tax system is a subsidy system that makes them richer.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance may be, they are every bit as renounced as monks because they have that spirit. The spirit of charity on a spiritual platform. The Bhagavad Gita explains that real wisdom is when we see every living being with equal vision. When we love God, we naturally love our neighbor as our self, as the Bible also tells us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Real, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Powerful, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Conservatism means re-embracing true free enterprise. True free enterprise, which I believe and not because my parents were wealthy, not because I inherited millions of dollars because I did not, but because as I walked on to the stage here today, I walked through the kitchen of this hotel and I met people and shook the hands of people who are doing the jobs my parents once did.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, World

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

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• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Believe, Campaigns, Resources

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• Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  Foster Friess

  Jobs, Zuckerberg, Effort

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• the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Reality, Moats, Neurosis

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

  Bette Midler

  Smart, Entertainment, Life Is

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• It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income' -- well, so be it. I don't call it that. I call it just being fair -- giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.

  Joe Biden

  Simple, Class, Giving

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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