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Money Quotes


"Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money."


"The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in."


"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."


"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children."


"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."


"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."


"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."


"The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you."


"Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous."


"Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that."


"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."


"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."


"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."


"I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?"


"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."


"The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with."


"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."


"I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy."


"Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee."


"People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me."


"I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to."


"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing."


"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money."


"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."


"There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way."


"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."


"I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever."


"Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance."


"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."


"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
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