Ernst Engel Quotes
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
LaToya London
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie
I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
Taylor Sheridan
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
Daniel Barenboim
The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
Madeleine M. Kunin
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Zubin Mehta
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
Kamala Harris
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
Frances Wright
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
Jodie Foster
Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
John Lithgow
What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.
Rachel Grace Held
[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.
Barack Obama
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
Ted Nugent
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
