Richest Quotes

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"I never did anything for personal gain. When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can`t go wrong. That`s what I tell my kids, anyway."

- George Foreman

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I`m playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

- Anthony Michael Hall

These are the richest people on earth that I`m dealing with. Their conception of money is totally different than yours or mine. They`ll pay $3 million a hand at blackjack and have five hands going.

- Heidi Fleiss

We did a different show every night. We`d open a show, and then two weeks later we`d open the next show. And two weeks later we`d open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I`d ever had in my theatrical life.

- Mandy Patinkin

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

- Martin Scorsese

I`m pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I`m doing. I don`t need to be the world`s greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don`t need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I`ve come to, later in life. It`s called growing up.

- John Carpenter

As a result of America`s efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

- David Horowitz

I remember in the book that Caractacus was married. There was no love interest, no love story. So I think bringing Truly Scrumptious in works very well because we had assumed he was a widower. And they couldn`t have picked a better Truly Scrumptious than Sally (Sally Ann Howes). They came up with Sally Ann and I heard her voice, and it was the richest contralto. She auditioned with "The Lovely Lonely Man" and I thought, "My God, this girl is great!" and then she was stunningly beautiful. She loved those kids and they loved her, which I think comes across on the screen. They just thought a great deal of her and she spent a lot of time with them, you know, between shots - telling stories and playing games during all those long waiting periods.

- Dick Van Dyke

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever `cause he believed in God.

- James Brown

We`ve spent the better part of the year shooting our next movie, Sicko (2007). As we`ve done with our other films, we don`t discuss them while we are making them. If people ask, we tell them `Sicko` is a comedy about the 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on Earth.

- Michael Moore

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

- Wynton Marsalis

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

- Socrates

Now our students can get their classroom experience with us, and then do work at Hopkins. They can spend time in one of the richest research environments in the world, but still have that very small class size here.

- Peter Hoffman

People are ready to say, `Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.` We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

- Studs Terkel

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Lawrence Durrell

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- Terry Sweeney

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can`t provide health care to all its people.

- Alan Johnston

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world`s richest source of rewarding challenges.

- Albert Haldemann

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

- Albert Haynesworth

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

- Alison Morano

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

- Alle Fister

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

- Allison Sharp

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

- Alta Charo

Why is it in the richest country in the world '¦ people have all these empties? It`s not just inner-city kids. Almost all kids today have aspects of these things.

- Ashley Miles

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor

- Helen Keller

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

- Marshall McLuhan

I feel for the sponsors (HSBC) because they put up a lot of money. This is the richest first prize in all of golf (one million pounds).

- Michael Campbell

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I`m not there, I go to work.

- Robert Orben

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates

Just to make certain that I wasn`t missing anything, as we see a lot of people running around talking about the basis for all these values, I went back and reread the New Testament the other day, from one side to the other, and make certain that I hadn`t missed anything. You know what? In the three years of Jesus Christ`s mission, of his ministry, there is no mention whatsoever '” or even a hint '” that you ought to be taking health care or educational opportunity away from children in order to give to the richest people in the world. None whatsoever.

- Senator John Kerry

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

- Senator John Kerry