Chavdar Valov Quotes & Sayings

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic. — Adam Gopnik

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself. — Kevin Shelley

Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it, — Jamie Dimon

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement - and If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she's truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of "smart"? — Malcolm Gladwell

The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit. — Alex Ferguson

The perfect human being is uninteresting. - Joseph Campbell — Laura Greenwald

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10, — Winona Ryder

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet. — John Gay

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes