Ernst Engel Quotes
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question.
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It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.
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Marriage is not different from a relationship.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
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I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
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I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people.
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I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
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I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!
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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
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I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family.
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Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.
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With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
