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"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."
Chuck Zito
"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."
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"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."
Paul Auster
"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."
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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
Robert Penn Warren
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
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"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
J. Paul Getty
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
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"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
Johnny Rivers
"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
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"Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out."
Renny Harlin
"Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out."
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"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."
Mahalia Jackson
"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."
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"Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so."
Ann Macbeth
"Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so."
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"I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights."
Art Linkletter
"I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights."
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"Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor."
Kevin Costner
"Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor."
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"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."
Carter G. Woodson
"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."
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"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."
Bruce Beresford
"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."
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"I won't make a movie for money ever again."
Ryan Phillippe
"I won't make a movie for money ever again."
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"No man's credit is as good as his money."
John Dewey
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
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"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money."
Reggie Jackson
"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money."
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"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
Freddie Mercury
"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
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"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
Christopher Eccleston
"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
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"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility."
Hedda Hopper
"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility."
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"Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man."
Johnnie Cochran
"Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man."
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
Marian Wright Edelman
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
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"A fool and his money are soon parted."
Thomas Tusser
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
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"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
Kin Hubbard
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
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"My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money."
Wendy Liebman
"My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money."
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"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
Marlee Matlin
"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
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"Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'."
Dada Bhagwan
"Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'."
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"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."
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"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
Steve Martin
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
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"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
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"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Rick Moody
"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
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"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."
Mason Cooley
"Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money."
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"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
Marilyn Monroe
"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."
Bill Bradley
"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."
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"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."
Mike Tyson
"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."
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"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."
Jean-Francois Lyotard
"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."
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"My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7."
Bob Cousy
"My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7."
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"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."
David Geffen
"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."
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"It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich."
Dirk Benedict
"It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich."
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"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."
Jennifer Lopez
"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."
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"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
Suze Orman
"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
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"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."
Taylor Caldwell
"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."
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"I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money."
Mickey Gilley
"I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money."
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"People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money."
Gena Rowlands
"People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money."
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"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
Elvis Presley
"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
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"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."
Gavin MacLeod
"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."
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"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
Mahalia Jackson
"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
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"I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me."
Johnny Ramone
"I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me."
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"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
Bill Murray
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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"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."
Anita Roddick
"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."
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"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."
"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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"Money is a never-ending problem."
Alvin Ailey
"Money is a never-ending problem."
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