"Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice."

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Source : Johan Norberg (2005). “In Defence of Global Capitalism”, p.39, Academic Foundation

Johan Norberg

#Opportunity Quotes #Choices Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that and I don't want people to get like that with me.”
“Everyone hates war, everyone says.”
“I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.”

Source : "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.
“If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.”
“I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.”

Source : "George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, nepr.net. April 13, 2017.
“If you're wealthy like Donald Trump is, and you have a preacher who says your wealth is a sign God approves of you, you're probably going to like that preacher. And if there is one major element in Donald Trump's religious beliefs, it would be this prosperity gospel.”
“For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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