William Julius Wilson Quotes
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.William Julius Wilson
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
Abbi Jacobson -
Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
Edmund Phelps -
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
Pamela Adlon -
In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
Pankaj Mishra -
China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
Marc Andreesen -
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
Vaclav Klaus
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
Harriet Martineau -
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Larry Holmes -
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Gail Sheehy -
Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
W. Averell Harriman
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Jack Schwartz -
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak -
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston -
Class is more important than a game.
Pat Summitt -
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen -
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom
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The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
Harrison Ford -
Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.
Ethan Slater -
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
William Julius Wilson