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"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
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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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"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death."

"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."

"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."

"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."

"Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't."

"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
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