Arthur Laffer Quotes
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
Quotes to Explore
-
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
-
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
-
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
-
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
-
Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
-
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
-
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
-
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
-
India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
-
If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
-
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
-
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
-
I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
-
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
-
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
-
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
-
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
-
Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
-
I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
-
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
-
That feeling of surrender is there, has to be there. We all want that. We all want to let go. And in that feeling alone… Maybe you call it peace. Maybe you call it satisfaction. Maybe you call it anything. But it’s a feeling of 'let go,' when the whole world becomes that tranquil world that’s liveable.
-
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
-
You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.
-
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
