Wielding Quotes

On fame: "As soon as enough people give you enough compliments and you`re wielding more power than you`ve ever had in your life, it`s not that you become an arrogant little prick, or become rude to people ... but you get a false sense of your own importance and what you`ve accomplished. You actually think you`ve altered the course of history."

On fame: "As soon as enough people give you enough compliments and you`re wielding more power than you`ve ever had in your life, it`s not that you become an arrogant little prick, or become rude to people ... but you get a false sense of your own importance and what you`ve accomplished. You actually think you`ve altered the course of history."

Gen Xers in particular are wielding their buying power to shape today`s new-home characteristics, ... They`re techno-savvy and more likely to be house-shopping on the Internet. They have a strong awareness of all their options.

Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.