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Money Quotes
"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness."
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"There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto."
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"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"
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"Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."
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"To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee."
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"Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger."
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"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."
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"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one."
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"The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary."
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"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game."
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"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
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"'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it."
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"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
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"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."
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"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
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"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
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"You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96."
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character."
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"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
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"We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience."
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"Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book."
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"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."
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"I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution."
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"So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do."
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"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."
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"Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green."
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"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones."
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