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"There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!"
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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."

"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."

"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"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."

"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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"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."

"I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete."

"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."

"I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there."

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."
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