Douglas Brunt Quotes

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.