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“People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.”

People May Products Paper Familiar Cups Household Terrified Items Carpet Towels Boycott Dixie Paper Towels

Author:Jane Mayer

“We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support a family. And mom was around and wanted nothing more than to just, you know, do everything she could for her kids.”

Knows Kids Wanted Support Mom Advantage Income Household

Author:Jill Stein

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.”

Years Mom Raised My Mom Household Formative Years

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.”

“By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.”

Care Soldier Household Wounded Wounded Soldier

Author:Jill Stein

“As a senator, I raised the alarm about sub prime mortgages. I fought to hold reckless manufacturers accountable for toxic toys and household products that threaten our kids. I introduced legislation to protect Americans' personal data and combat identity theft. So as president, I will make consumer protection a top priority across the entire government.”

“I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.”

Parent Wonderful Grew Grew Up Catholic Fortunate Household Great Irish

Author:Tim Kaine

“In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.”

Two Order Courses Growing Up Growing Figures Italian Frank Household Pope

Author:Robert Davi

“New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.”

Wells Christian Fighting Cities Growing Up Growing New York West Hip Hop Rap Hips Indian Hops New York City Household Strict Trinidadians

Author:Phife Dawg

“I mean, that's the least we should do for these men and women [veterans and military spouses], is to make sure they come back to jobs that pay, to career opportunities, that these spouses are able to add a second income to their households, because these families do not have a lot of resources.”

Men Should Mean Able Jobs Opportunity Pay Careers Military Men And Women Resources Add Income Household Spouse Veteran Career Opportunities Military Spouse

Author:Michelle Obama

“There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.”

Giving Doubt Cutting Taxes No Doubt Cash Household Stimulus Tax Cuts

Author:Judy Woodruff

“They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.”

Two Pay Rich Cutting Taxes Benefits Aspect Fund Household Unpredictable Tax Cuts Affluent

Author:Judy Woodruff

“The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.”

Country Good Things Household Formation

Author:Warren Buffett

“We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.”

Knows Years Country Form Millions Household

Author:Warren Buffett

“I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.”

Taught Grew Grew Up And Love God Love Household Respecting Others

Author:Sho Baraka

“I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.”

“I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.”

Writing Wells Shows Together Girl Voice Ability Grew Grew Up Female Males Credit Ran Neighborhood Household Older Sister Female Voice

Author:Wally Lamb

“I was a lawyer and I have been married to a lawyer. I think one lawyer per household is plenty. It's a good quota for us.”

Thinking Has Beens Married Lawyer Plenty Household Quota

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.”

Law Television Brother Involved Bigger West Sat My Brother Household Mesmerized Gunfights

Author:Elizabeth Crook

“It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.”

Knows World Shows House Parent Decided Treated Instance Staying Grandmother Locked Household Show Me My Grandmother

Author:Trevor Noah

“Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.”

Men Mother Culture Father Growing Up Growing Truth Is Appreciate Including Household African Culture

Author:Trevor Noah

“I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.”

Play Grew Dad Grew Up Musician Ears Sight Instruments My Dad Household Classical Music Phenomenal

Author:Bill Walton

“I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.”

Littles Roles Grew Grew Up Household

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household.”

I Can Baby Household

Author:RZA

“I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.”

Deals Grew Grew Up Standing Beach Clock Wheels Household Franklin Brass New Deal

Author:Nat Hentoff

“Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.”

Real Challenges Seeing Income Household Wages Stagnation Median

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best writers and directors. And one thing that's really interesting about it is that it used to be, if you were on a big network show, like it or not, you were a household face and name. And believe it or not, not all actors like that. That's not their goal. They just like being actors. And there are so many actors that are on hit shows that I have never seen, I've never heard.”

Ifs Believe Different Shows Bigs Faces Used Actors Names Goal Interesting Wonderful One Thing Heard Television Products Industry Directors Extraordinary Used To Be Household Really Interesting

Author:Jean Smart

“I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.”

Mother Reading Father Grew Grew Up Household Power Of Words

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent households. We know in all kinds of ways it makes a huge difference to how kids come out and we are hardening into a caste society where some kids do better in all kinds of ways because they have two parents and others don't.”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Children Two Important Kids Grows Parent Differences Numbers Growing Up Huge All Kinds Stable Household Castes Important Questions

Author:David Frum

“I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.”

Thinking Able Names Worry Crosses Performances Labels Household

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.”

Book Play Progress Century Amount Couple Cost Incredibles Pounds Household Pilgrim 17th Century Shakespeare Play

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.”

“[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.”

Country Running Pretending Household

Author:Hilary Mantel

“[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.”

Should Wells Wanted Males Voters Household Juvenile

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."”

People Thinking Knows Believe Running I Believe Know How Stupid Vote Voters Household Vote For Me

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.”

Needs Children Kids Remember Environment Adults Curiosity Disaster Curious Manifest Household Exploring Pathways

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.”

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Author:Nina Turner

“I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single parents; they're breadwinners; they're the 'mamas,' they're the 'daddies,' they're the 'uncles.' They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.”

Knows Problem Kids School Games Parent Can Do Doctors Household Uncles Daddy Mama Headings Single Parent Breadwinner

Author:Steve Harvey

“[Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our father made incredible damage outside of the home but we ask for reciprocity because the only thing he ever gave us within the household was love.”

Made Home Asks Father Incredibles Affection Our Family Damage Household Our Father Family Love Reciprocity Love And Affection

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.”

People Three Wealth Half Percent Bottom Income Collectives Household Grotesque

Author:Thomas Pogge

“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.”

People World Giving Humans Three Poverty Five Huge Percent Bottom Average Population Nine Income Inequality Thirty Quarters Household Avoided Ratios Human Population

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.”

Lost Five Groups Share Periods Percent Thirds Bottom Income Relative Quarters Household Reduction Marginalized

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.”

“Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.”

“I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.”

Running Wonderful Scene Lucky Hollywood Calm Household Grandkids Wonderful Friends

Author:Rick James

“We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.”

Problem Running Energy Can Do Economy Wind Towns Fuel Neighborhood Disappointed Household Fossils Fossil Fuel Hardware Solar Energy Fabricate Wind Energy Fuel Economy

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.”

“I remember [Joe] Lovano came around to me at that time [of Monk competition]. And I had taken some lessons with Joe and I had seen Joe on the scene. He had always been so great to me, such and inspiration and so kind. One lesson that I had with Joe was just amazing. I'm just such a fan and an admirer of his on every level. He was like, "Don't worry... you're just out here. You just do what you're doing. Don't worry if it doesn't make you a household name or anything."”

Ifs Kind Inspiration Remember Names Levels Worry Taken Fans Lessons Scene Competition Household Monk Admirer

Author:Jon Gordon

“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.”

“Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.”

Humans Courses Members Abuse Admire Cooks Our Family Beast Pet Companion Household Cages Family Members Laborers Pests

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

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