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Norman Lear

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."

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Amber Hurdle

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

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Amber Hurdle

"For I can raise no money by vile means."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."

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Amber Hurdle

"The passion for money is never fickle."

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Amber Hurdle

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"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."
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