"France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and GÃ©rard Depardieu and many others left the country."

-- T.R. Reid

#Country Quotes #Champion Quotes #World Quotes

“Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.”
“Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”

Source : 'Diary' 25 December 1665
“Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.”
“We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.”
“I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.”
“If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light is wasted. God does not give us light for its own sake, but for the purpose of doing something in the light.”
“There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.”
“I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.”

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