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"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"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."
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
"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."
"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
"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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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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