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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
Photography

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
Photography

"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
Photography

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
Life

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
Memory

"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
Talent

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
People

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
Public

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
People

"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
Art
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