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"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."
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"Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market."
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"I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with..."
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"Debt is a bottomless sea."
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"Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made."
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"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
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"Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown."
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"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
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"The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us."
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"It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me."
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"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably, the man who respects it has earned it."
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"I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision."
Decision
"The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact."
Being
"All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy."
Work
"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."
America
"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."
Finance
"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."
Time
"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."
Success
"I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die."
Eye
"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge."
Knowledge
"I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations."
News
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