Alissa Quart Quotes

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Alissa Quart

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• I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Great
  • Future

• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Me

• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • May
  • Integrity
  • Brainy

• On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Past
  • Blue
  • Abuse

• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Christian

• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Trying
  • Success

• The older I get, the better I was.

  

  Van Dyke Parks
  • Age
  • Golf
  • Wine

• What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Future
  • Career
  • Positive

• I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Reason
  • Company
  • Differences

• The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Miracles
  • Moses

• The first wealth is health.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health
  • First
  • Wealth

• You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Dinner
  • Playground
  • Yell

• No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Wealth
  • Inequality
  • Downside