"We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes."

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Source : "Farewell to the woman they called the Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley dies at 87" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.

Leona Helmsley

#Business Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.”
“Something went wrong. It was correct when I studied it.”
“I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.
“When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.”
“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”
“Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.”
“Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?”
“We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.”

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