John Baldessari Quotes

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The league will have to finally decide whether it will remain a body representing the upper classes of Indian Muslims or Muslim masses who have so far with good reason, taken no interest in it.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.