"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."

-- Ethel Waters

#People Quotes #Wealthy Quotes

“An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.”
“Comedies are something Id be very interesting in doing.”
“The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.”
“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”
“It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.”
“Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. Iâ€™m afraid. More afraid than youâ€™d ever believe.â€™ And heâ€™d take her hand and theyâ€™d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And sheâ€™d tell him everything.”
“One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.”

Source : Sebastian Haffner (2012). “Defying Hitler: A Memoir”, p.14, Hachette UK
“I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.”

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