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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
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"Success produces success, just as money produces money."
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"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
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"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."
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"As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society."
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"There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!"
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"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
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"There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you."
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"If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year."
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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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"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."
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"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
Writing

"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."
Life

"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
Glory

"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
Money

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
Life

"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
Life
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