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Money Quotes


"Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues."



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


"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."


"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."


"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."


"I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights."


"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."


"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."


"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."


"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."


"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."


"Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'."


"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."



"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."


"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."


"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."


"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."


"Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts."


"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."


"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there."



"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."



"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."


"I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money."


"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."


"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."


"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."


"The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away."



"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
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