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Robert Wyatt

"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."

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"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."

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"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."

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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

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"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

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"Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery."

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"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

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"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."

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"Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth."

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"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."
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