Rich Quotes - Page 24

• By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

  Thomas More

  Wise, Men, Office

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

  Mario Monti

  Mean, Europe, Prejudice

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• I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.

  Big L

  Real, Home, Dough

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• I'm from where...Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up

  Cam'ron

  Kitchen

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• And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

  Cam'ron

  Guy, Tears, Slaughter

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• If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Looks, Ifs

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Agriculture

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• [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

  Herbert Stein

  People, Income, Minorities

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• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Wise, Money, Men

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• We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated.

  Maria Rodale

  Choices, Clean Air, Educated

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.192, Rodale

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• Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.

  George Pelecanos

  Attitude, Up North, Interesting

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel good about himself. As if it's only rich white people or Republicans or conservatives who have this disease.

  George Pelecanos

  Order, White, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

  Bill Gates

  People, Progress, Foundation

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• The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

  Bill Gates

  Appreciation, Body, Complex Systems

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• In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

  Zoe Saldana

  Class, Ladders, Levels

  Source: movieweb.com

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• There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

  Paul Theroux

  People, Politician, Idealistic

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, edition.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

  Pope Francis

  Class, Differences, World

  "Pope says his economic message isn't class warfare, it's church doctrine". Press conference, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2015.

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• My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Nice, Happy Life, Goal

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, New Experiences

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success is the fact that hey, I just did a movie and maybe I'll do some stand up, maybe I'll will write a book or maybe I will do a play.

  Chris Rock

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "Chris Rock On Standup, Sellouts And Defining Success". Interview with Audie Cornish, kwit.org. December 05, 2014.

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• Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

  Joseph Lowery

  Needs, Today, Poor

  "Rev. Joseph Lowery, Author Ron Christie on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2006.

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• To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fall, Assuming, Burden

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.85, Gallic Books

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