"The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax.""

-- T.R. Reid

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“They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.”

Source : "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.
“Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.”
“I only believe in those who can still blush.”

Source : "Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha, seus amores e seus pecados" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, (p. 175), 1994.
“Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We donâ€™t value architecture, we donâ€™t take it seriously, we donâ€™t want to pay for it and the architect isnâ€™t trusted.”
“I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.”
“I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage”
“The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.”
“A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.”

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