Quotes with rich-something

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  • George Bernard Shaw Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • A. P. Herbert An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Richard Burton An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Sir Alec Issigonis An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Alexander Pope And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Beatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Alex Cox And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Bob Dylan And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Buddy Rich And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Buddy Rich And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Cobbett Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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