"I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud."

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Source : "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#Mean Quotes #Issues Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die youngâ€”and if possible free of all pain? A graceful deathâ€”as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.”
“Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.”

Source : "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.
“The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”
“Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].”
“Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.”
“You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.”
“They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books

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