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"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."
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"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."

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

"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."

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

"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."

"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have."

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

"Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?"
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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."

"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."

"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."

"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."

"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."

"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."

"I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times."
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