Annabel Park Quotes

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Annabel Park

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• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Man
  • Personality

• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Know
  • Greatest

• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Power
  • High
  • Change

• See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Problem
  • Clothes
  • Will

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Democracy

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Democracy
  • Leaders
  • Ethiopia

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Power
  • Space
  • Walk

• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Option

• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Political
  • Decision

• Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Power

• Try to keep your mouth shut until you have a job offer, especially if your move is not entirely certain. There are only a few cases in which I think it would be appropriate to tell your boss what's going on. For example, if your spouse is being forced to relocate, obviously you are going to go, and if you have a good relationship with your boss, then it might take some stress off of you to tell the truth. The general rule, though, is not to give your employer more power over your destiny than you have yourself.

  

  Alexandra Levit
  • Power
  • Destiny
  • Employer

• All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Exercise
  • Empathy
  • Advocacy

• It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • You
  • Fear
  • Difficult

• When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

  

  Annabel Park
  • Power
  • Problem
  • Democracy