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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich Quotes
On wealth, privilege, and richness beyond money.
Not every quote here is about bank accounts - some describe a college's rich history or a rich jewel of knowledge, while others weigh how wealth and protection are distributed. If money is more your focus, see Money.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I would go to the barrio, people saw me as a rich person, but when I'm around rich people, they see me as someone from the ghetto. It's all perceptions. I like moving between worlds. I feel equally comfortable in both.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
- Nov 07, 2020
We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.
- Discrepancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the Third World has become a mass market for the goods, products, and processes which are designed by the rich for themselves, the discrepancy between demand for these Western artifacts and the supply will increase indefinitely.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be rich and famous.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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- Nov 07, 2020