money
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘money’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?” -Casey Stengel
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“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” -Helen Gurley Brown
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“Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.” -Richard Branson
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“When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get an attitude.” -Richard Pryor
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“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.” -Justin Bieber
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“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.”…
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“President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That’s national policy. Taxpayer money. So let’s stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.” -John Sununu
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“Money isn’t a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.” -Kevin Costner
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“The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket – they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.” -Julie Burchill
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“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.” -Michael Porter
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“I’m so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me – and sometimes for a lot of money too.” -Liam Neeson
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“I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?” -Jean Baudrillard
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“Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.” -Phyllis George
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“And also there wasn’t much money in television in those days anyhow.” -Jim Henson
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“Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.” -Al Pacino
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“The money that goes into Social Security is not the government’s money. it’s your money. You paid for it.” -Mitch McConnell
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“Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!” -Craig Bruce
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“What’s my motto when it comes to money? Don’t put so much emphasis on it!” -Janice Dickinson
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.” -Abel Ferrara
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“I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.” -John Cleese
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“I don’t care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.” -Cornelius Vanderbilt
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“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.” -Margaret Young
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“When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn’t have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.” -Buck Baker
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“The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.” -Henry Hazlitt
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“There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people’s money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.” -Steve Forbes
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“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.” -Edmund Hillary
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“Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.” -Madeleine Albright
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“I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.” -Walter Isaacson
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“As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.” -Tim Scott
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“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.” -Al Franken
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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.” -W. H. Auden
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“I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there’s a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.” -Willie Nelson
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“Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don’t need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.” -Katy Perry
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“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.” -Will Durant
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“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It’s just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.” -Dave Davies
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“What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.” -Sitting Bull
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“Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.” -Michael Badnarik
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“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren’t here to enjoy them, what good do they do?” -Eric Davis
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“There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.” -Arthur C. Brooks
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“I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.” -Maria Callas
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“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.” -Edith Wharton
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“I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money – this is the guy who needs to laugh.” -Larry David
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“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” -Chester A. Arthur
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“I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they’re wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they’re making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” -Russell Simmons
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“Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.” -Marco Rubio
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“People who have car collections – I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It’s not beautiful, it’s not creative. It’s just showing how much money you’ve got.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.” -Michael Caine
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“I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.” -Elvis Presley
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“But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.” -Jeb Bush
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“You’re right on the money with that. We’re all like detectives in life. There’s something at the end of the trail that we’re all looking for.” -David Lynch
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“I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.” -Lukas Foss
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“Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.” -Tertullian
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“The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.” -Charles Handy
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“A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.” -Larry Ellison
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“I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.” -Laurie Anderson
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“Money is a poor man’s credit card.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros’ pocket money. It’s fundamentally ridiculous.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore.” -Christina Aguilera
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“I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.” -Heidi Klum
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“Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.” -Martin Scorsese
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“France is the country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.” -Billy Wilder
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“I don’t understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I’m interested in someone, and I don’t want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I’m not interested in that person.” -Britney Spears
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“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.” -Greer Garson
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“To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I’m passionate about food!” -Hugh Jackman
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“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.” -Abu Bakar Bashir
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“And you can’t have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can’t be done.” -Arthur Laffer
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“Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.” -John Dryden
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“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.” -Harvey Milk
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“While money doesn’t buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.” -Christopher Marlowe
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“I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.” -Rose Kennedy
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“I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.” -Julie Andrews
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“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” -Al Gore
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“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.” -Mary Quant
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“People assume I’m out there having this great life, but money doesn’t erase the pain. When you’re young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.” -Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” -Lawrence Welk
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“As kids we didn’t complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.” -Jay-Z
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“I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.” -Cat Stevens
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“Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.” -Adam Smith
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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” -Theodore White
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“And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.” -Freddie Mercury
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“I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn’t have to go far to find them.” -Tiger Woods
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“Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.” -Erykah Badu
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“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.” -Richard Wagner
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“My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there we’re a band of brothers.” -Stevie Nicks
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“I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family.” -Tom Felton
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“The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.” -Humphrey Bogart
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“Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.” -Spike Milligan
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“They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“And of course I didn’t make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.” -Demetri Martin
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“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.” -Taylor Swift
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“I’m tired of love I’m still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.” -Hilaire Belloc
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“Wal-Mart doesn’t really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.” -Richard Roeper
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“Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he’s always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he’s important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O’Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.” -Denis Leary
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“Work isn’t to make money you work to justify life.” -Marc Chagall
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“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.” -David Suzuki
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“I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.” -Jean-Luc Godard
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“When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.” -Scott Adams
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“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.” -Lysander Spooner
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“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money, better jobs.” -Ron Livingston
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“I don’t really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I’m probably not going to ever make a lot of money.” -Juliana Hatfield
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“What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.” -Paul Ryan
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“A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.” -Emil Zatopek
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“No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.” -Cesare Pavese
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“Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.” -Brandon Boyd
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“I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky – in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.” -Chloe Sevigny
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“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” -Dan Millman
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“In a very weak economy, when you say ‘cut government spending,’ what you mean is you’re laying off school teachers and you’re de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don’t pay taxes.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“I’m free of stress and worries now because if I don’t like something I’m doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money – when I grew up so poor, ya know?” -Jenny McCarthy
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“This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.” -Mark Zuckerberg
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“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days – museums have to bring in money – but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.” -Jerry Saltz
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“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.” -Doug Coupland
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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” -Havelock Ellis
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“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.” -Horace Mann
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“A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren’t in search of the truth. They’re in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media’s the kind of a thing where the truth doesn’t win, because it’s no fun. The truth’s no fun.” -Jack White
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“Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more…
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“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.” -Paul Auster
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“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.” -Lee Iacocca
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“Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.” -Ken Venturi
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“Of course, I do everything for money.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” -J. Paul Getty
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“To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.” -Paul McCartney
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“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.” -Clarence Day
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“Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.” -Kevin O’Leary
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“Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We’re gonna have QE3. We’re gonna print some more money.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money – especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that’s why we lost.” -Eric Cantor
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“Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.” -Benjamin Tucker
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.” -Tyler Perry
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“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.” -Molly Ivins
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“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.” -Ovid
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“Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.” -Bo Bennett
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“Look, I’m very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we’ve gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don’t think we can play…
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“Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.” -Peter Schuyler
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“But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.” -Lily Tomlin
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“I can’t afford to die I’d lose too much money.” -George Burns
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“I’ve always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.” -Kinky Friedman
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” -Josh Billings
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“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don’t serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.” -Alveda King
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“Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.” -Sonny Bono
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“A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.” -Bobby Darin
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“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away.” -Fidel Castro
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“Remember that government doesn’t earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.” -Jesse Ventura
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“You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.” -Tennessee Williams
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“I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.” -Coretta Scott King
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“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well.” -Oliver Herford
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“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” -Jonathan Swift
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“What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.” -Henny Youngman
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“As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.” -David Korten
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“If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?” -Davy Crockett
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“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.” -John D. Rockefeller
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