"I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now."

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Source : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

Jon Lovitz

#Nice Quotes #Father Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“I stress â€“ I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.”
“Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.”
“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).”
“In good novelistic fashion, the discovery Iâ€™ve made is that itâ€™s complicated. I think thatâ€™s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, donâ€™t do that, or I believe, I donâ€™t believe.”

Source : "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.
“A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.”
“Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.”
“Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it.”
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.”

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