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"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared."
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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
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"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."
Worry

"Everybody needs somebody."
Needs

"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"
Sadness

"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."
God

"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands."
God

"One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it."
Jazz

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."
Money

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work."
Work

"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."
Christmas

"Money just draws flies."
Money
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