"After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. Â…By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%."

-- Janet Yellen

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“We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of us would've recognized the threat that Trump posed from the beginning, and (B) no one would have been surprised at the bigotry that was in the DNA of his campaign.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles.”
“If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”
“If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.”

Source : "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.”

Source : "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.
“The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.”
“I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.”

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