Robert J Shiller The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back. – Robert J Shiller Accept Quotes Class Quotes Desired Quotes Desperately Quotes Economic Quotes Feel Quotes Handout Quotes Handouts Quotes Middle Quotes Poor Quotes Power Quotes Smacks Quotes Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe – I think that’s a mistake. Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.
Ferran Adria When we’re ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food. – Ferran Adria
Jojo Moyes What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air – you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming – a physical pain. – Jojo Moyes
Alex Trebek It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence. – Alex Trebek
Baz Luhrmann When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love. – Baz Luhrmann
George Vecsey Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected. – George Vecsey
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