Petter Stordalen Quotes

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

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• Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Fighting
  • Pressure

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Funny
  • Mean
  • Being

• My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sister

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • God
  • Money
  • Knows

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Need
  • Back

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

  

  Laura Harring
  • World
  • May
  • Fashion

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Fun

• There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Poor
  • Loss
  • Benefits

• I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

  

  Steven Cojocaru
  • Pay
  • Critique

• Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

  

  Petter Stordalen
  • Pay
  • Taxes
  • Wealthy people