“So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanPersonsHas BeensGamesRichPossibilityQuietTaxesNewsMadRaisedDareServantRich PeopleBad NewsAccountantsButlersRich PersonCroquet Author:Craig Ferguson
“I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanCountryReasonShowsKidsSportsWhiteCitiesRichCostAssumingWinterRelevantOlympicsShow MeSkiingInner CityWinter Olympics Author:Daniel Tosh
“Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into the economy. Here's what we found out - rich people, really good at keeping all the money. That's how they got rich. If you want it in the economy, give it to the poor people. You know what they're really good at? Spending all their money.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantGivingIdeasWholeFoundSidesPoorEconomyRichEconomicsSpendingLots Of MoneyPoor PeopleRich PeopleTrickle DownTrickle Down EconomicsSupply Side Economics Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.” PeopleLooksActorsDifficultBlackChallengesWhiteRolesWatchesRichRepublicanSpeechSixPaidTunesBlack PeopleConventions Author:Andy Kindler
“Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.” PeopleRichMomLawyerRich PeopleLatino Author:Felipe Esparza
“When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.” PeopleWantLittlesImportantWantedUsedFeltVoiceWatchesRichModelsWinterStorytellingObservationFrankRobinsImpressionists Author:Frank Caliendo
“Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.” PeopleRichMealsSquaresPlatesRich People Author:Gary Gulman
“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksI CanGuyLaughingCreativeRichBrotherEasierTaxesStrangerSpendingProfessionSavingMy BrotherComponentsRich PeopleSaving MoneyManageableLife Saving Author:Gary Gulman
“I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.” PeopleHelpingValuesGamesParentTalkingRichHanging OutSpouseNot TalkingAmazing Parents Author:Tisha Campbell-Martin
“I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.” PeopleShouldRichDesignArchitectureRich People Author:David Adjaye
“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.” PeopleFeelsHomeHappensSchoolCultureOpportunityGivenChanceWhiteEffortPracticeStudyRichMovementReturnDecidedWestWesternParisCustomsAllowingSolidarityFundamentalistOxfordOther CulturesExpatriates Author:Umberto Eco
“If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.” PeopleIfsPersonsPoorMillionsRichEasierSellsPoor PeopleBecome RichRich Person Author:John Gokongwei
“Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingLooksDoeStillsRealDoneEnoughCausesCasesRichPlansFailingGroupsOceanPressureClimateEnvironmentalWarmHarmWar Of The WorldsFuelFossilsConsensusFossil FuelBeing DoneCondemningPressure GroupsOcean Acidification Author:Matt Ridley
“The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.” PeopleWellsBigsSufferingRealizingRichBetter OffRich PeopleBig Families Author:CeCe Winans
“What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with what they had.” PeopleStillsCountryCultureLostNationsPovertyRichAmountMetsInspiredTraumaResilienceHopefulMortalitySurvivorRegimesBrutalInfantFamily FriendsLost EverythingRougeCambodiaInfant MortalityKhmer Rouge Author:Joy Bryant
“First of all, what we [in USA] need to understand is the middle class is what makes us different and exceptional. Every country has rich people, but what has made us different throughout history is that we have this broad-based vibrant middle class.” PeopleNeedsFirstsWellsMadeDifferentCountryClassRichMiddleUsaMiddle ClassBroadsExceptionalRich People Author:Marco Rubio
“When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingFeelsYearsCountryHardUseTermJusticeTalkingVisionRichDangerGiving UpHundredChinaDevelopingFuelFossilsMarginsGet RichFossil FuelDeveloping CountriesInvulnerability Author:Bill McKibben
“Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".” PeopleIfsCultureWaitingRichGrewGrew UpMy FamilyLawyerEducatedJailMore MoneyCopRich PeopleArrested Author:Immortal Technique
“The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWantedRichKingsGoldChemistryMetalsRich PeopleAlchemyAlchemistTrying To ChangeBack In TimePrecursor Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensCountryEnoughWholeAmericaRichPoliticianTruth IsTaxesBallsRateLots Of MoneyOblivionMobilePaying Taxes Author:David Simon
“Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.” PeopleRichHaiti Author:Edwidge Danticat
“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealBodySpaceFictionKnowingRichMissingCreatingClothesStrangerPassingPassingsDimensionsNot KnowingEnticing Author:Miranda July
“Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.” PeopleMenMeanCountryCultureJesusBlackWhitePoorRichRanControlledItalian Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentHappensWealthPoorMillionsDemocracyRichImagineDevelopmentIndiaSocialistPoorestAppropriation Author:Arundhati Roy
“The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.” PeopleIfsEnoughProblemWould BeRichMediaPoliticianTaxesMessagesNewsCongressSolveBudgetsAppetiteComing OutRich PeopleInsultingLeftistsNews MediaRaising Taxes Author:Walter E. Williams