Miriam Margolyes Quotes

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

[The congressman visited Boston.] We often wonder how things are made so cheap among the Yankees. Come here and you will see women doing men's work, and happy and cheerful as the day is long, and why not?

Sure, we’re No. 1 in gross domestic product and military expenditures, but on a lot of measures of quality of life, the U.S. ranking is far lower.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.

If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.

Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay.

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the time it's around 3, 4 or 5% of GDP. If you look at what it would cost just to top up the income of all the poor people in a country, it would cost about 1% of GDP.

Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.

But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.

I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health services, water, electricity, public transport and safety of women are my top priority.

I don't know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville.

Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home.

I'm doing great in England.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?

I have always been an advocate of players and coaches going abroad if that's the right opportunity.

I'd rather live my life and do what I love and experience it. If I have some issues when I'm older, I mean, that's the cost of living a fantastic life.