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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

"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."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"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."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

"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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"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."

"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

"The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent."

"There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something."
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