Wealthy Quotes - Page 3

• There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

  Paul Theroux

  Stars, Cowboy, Thinking

  "Are U2 the last great rock'n'roll idealists?" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. August 08, 2009.

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• The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

  Cathie Linz

  Country, Mother, Men

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• All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

  Ethel Waters

  People

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• And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

  Mitch Daniels

  Children, School, Thinking

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

  Gail Collins

  People, Voting, Income

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.

  Stacy Schiff

  Real, Believe, Book

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• I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Ideas, People, East

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• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

  Eli Broad

  Believe, Hands, Foundation

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• Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

  Shania Twain

  Unimaginable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

  Josh Turner

  People, Backgrounds, Contact

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• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

  Elton John

  Successful, Intelligent, Men

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• I'm a very wealthy man.

  Elton John

  Men

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• The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

  Jesse Jackson

  Law

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• The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

  Al Gore

  Country, Struggle, Cutting

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• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Character, Wealth, Building

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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Powerful, Hero, Intelligent

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.458, Dell

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• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

  Eric Ries

  Fall, Zuckerberg, Class

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Senior, Research And Development, Focus

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• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  Nile Rodgers

  Song, Writing, People

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says yes. Because that’s indigenous to that country.

  Patti Stanger

  Country, Hate, Men

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

  Elton John

  Art, Wall, Inspire

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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