Nick Hanauer I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don’t need food stamps – since when is that left-wing? How did that become ‘leftie?’ That doesn’t seem leftie to me. That seems common sense. – Nick Hanauer Common Quotes Corporations Quotes Food Quotes Giant Quotes Idea Quotes Leftie Quotes Leftwing Quotes Pay Quotes Profitable Quotes Sense Quotes Stamps Quotes Workers Quotes People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs. The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn’t going out to eat at restaurants. They’re not taking piano lessons. They’re not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They’re not sending mom flowers on Mother’s day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they’re doing all of those things.
Alex Kurtzman In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives… the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family’s made you who you are, whether you’ve spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family. – Alex Kurtzman
Erin Heatherton Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works. – Erin Heatherton
Ed Kowalczyk We never really write ‘love’ love songs. There’s always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes. – Ed Kowalczyk
Dennis Weaver War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. – Dennis Weaver
John C Reilly To me, it doesn’t make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie. – John C Reilly
Amelia Warner Being the hot girl… you wouldn’t want that. It’s overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I’d rather be… I’d rather be interesting. – Amelia Warner
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