Minimum Wage Debate Quotes & Sayings

My life is going to change. I feel it. — Raymond Carver

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell. — Mason Cooley

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute. — Ashley Tisdale

Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in the brightest daylight, you see the night sky and stars. — Neil Gaiman

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?! — Augustus

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate. 42 It is a word that speaks to the fact that poverty is not just a product of low incomes. It is also a product of extractive markets. Boosting poor people's incomes by increasing the minimum wage or public benefits, say, is absolutely crucial. But not all of those extra dollars will stay in the pockets of the poor. Wage hikes are tempered if rents rise along with them, just as food stamps are worth less if groceries in the inner city cost more - and they do, as much as 40 percent more, by one estimate. 43 Poverty is two-faced - a matter of income and expenses, input and output - and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we ignore this plain fact. — Matthew Desmond

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore. — Tila Tequila

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister. — Marianne Moore

I have always seen talented person being ignored. — Srinivas Shenoy

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks. — Kristi Yamaguchi

I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well. — Carly Rae Jepsen

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' the single! Bless my mum - don't know what she was thinkin'! — Sheridan Smith

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true. — Stephanie Cutter

By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights. — Jon Kabat-Zinn