Dennis Prager Quotes

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Dennis Prager

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• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Today
  • You
  • Where

• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Way
  • Democracy
  • Carry

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Relax
  • Colors
  • Gardening

• I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Problem

• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Music
  • Find

• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Love
  • American

• Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Personality
  • More
  • Cartoon

• I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Really
  • Can
  • Afford

• I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Country
  • Education
  • Change

• Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Acting
  • Perspective
  • Actor

• Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Is he really dead?

  

  Ulysses S. Grant

• It was the most enthralling episode in my life

  

  Edward Heath
  • Life

• Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • People
  • Life
  • Single

• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Slavery
  • Confusion
  • Prisons

• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Running

• Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Consciousness
  • Arrogance
  • Conceit

• I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

  

  Charles Olson
  • American
  • Envy

• The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

  

  Dennis Prager