| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47431 |
| QUOTATION: | [My daughter] says she wants to marry a rich man, so she can have a Porsche. My rejoinder always is: Go out and get rich yourself, so you can buy your own. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Carol Royce (b. 1942), U.S. radio station administrator. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 1, section 2, by Studs Terkel (1988).
Royce, a divorcee who administered a classical-music station, was speaking of her daughter, a pizza parlor employee and vocational-school student. |
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