It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
In ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Singapore will be seen as it should be seen, without CGI, without the altering of the images to be more Chinese – a representation of Singapore as we know it and love it.
If I had not passed through trial – through passion, one could say – through these years so painful and so rich, I don’t believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
I don’t know how anyone could vote Republican. It’s so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
Countries which favour openness and the mobility of skilled talent secure the development of more diverse and culturally rich work environments, a higher level of innovation, as well as entrepreneurship and wider international networks.
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
You can never be too rich or too thin.
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he’s like, ‘Umm, I’m taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate’s, like, half Afghani, so it’s going to cause some static.’
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
There were some television sets back in the ’50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy’s apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.
In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.
I’m too old and too rich to do any more stunts.
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, ‘Hey, I’m rich’.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
I’m not rich but I’ve made a little money in my time.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today’s global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don’t know where they get that.
Often for hors d’oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
I didn’t live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn’t live in a big house.
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man’s guru.
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they’re so rich, they feel they don’t work that much for all that money – and they don’t, for the amount of money they make.
Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which – if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself – she generally paid the price.
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
