William E. Simon Quotes
If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
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I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
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We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
