Wealthy Quotes - Page 15

• We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

  Chris Rock

  Money, People, Guy

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

  Ramsey Clark

  Money, Real, Government

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• Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Money, Health, Bridges

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• As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Developing Countries, Way

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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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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• I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Winning, Able

  "Floating Round My Tin Can". Interview with Jacob Aron, www.slate.com. November 16, 2013.

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• Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

  Chris Hayes

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Party, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.

  Robert Reich

  Rights, Years, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Party, Calling The Shots

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Wall, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Lucky, Needs

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

  Anthea Turner

  People, Doe, Should

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Choices, Waiting

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Class, Circles

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Country, Party

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.35

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• I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

  Paul Lansky

  Real, World, Able

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

  Mitt Romney

  Successful, Men, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the wealthy, clear air, you bewitched it with smoke and burnt smell, you weren't settled for the best spring water, you filled up yourself with several kinds of hard drinks, the sun shined for you in vain, you didn't behold it...

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spring, Men, Air

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.

  David Letterman

  White, America, Trying

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• The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer.

  Scott Raab

  Jobs, Giving, Nannies

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Class, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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