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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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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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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I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
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The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.
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I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.
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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.
