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"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
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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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"Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly."
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"One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want."
Work
"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
Lie
"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."
People
"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
Business
"The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future."
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"But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me."
People
"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air."
Respect
"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."
Battle
"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in."
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