Quotes About Disparity

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

Different people need different things.

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don't get me wrong - I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it's sparse.

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

Nobody's the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.

People really want different things depending on who they are.

We all have different ways to do things.

Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

Every director is so different from every other one.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

Does it help Dutch teams in the Champions League because they don't have to be at it in the league? I think it does. I experienced the disparity.

Pay disparity has always been there.

Pay disparity is not just in our country but elsewhere in the world, too. However, I do believe that there will come a time when it will change.

I'm going to keep correcting people, sometimes harshly, on the disparity between conservativism and Trumpism.

Pay disparity is something I don't like honestly. I feel it depends on say, if any actress and actor at the same level bring in same number of people into theatres, they should be paid equally. That's just what I believe in.

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.