#gilded

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#slavery #stardom

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#gilded #i #incredibly #jets #lonely

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#gilded #mediocre #talent #tomb