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Money Quotes
"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."
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"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."
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"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money."
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"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."
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"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."
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"When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it."
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"When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along."
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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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"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
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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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"Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives."
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"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
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"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."
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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 have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
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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."
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"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
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"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."
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"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
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"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."
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"Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls."
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"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again."
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"I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money."
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"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it."
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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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"They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly."
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"Worrying about money is one of the worst worries. It's like having locked-in syndrome, except you're still moving around and doing things. Your head burns. If other people are not having money problems, it pisses you off because it reminds you that you're limited in the ways you can express your agency in the world, and they aren't. Worrying about money is anger-inducing because it makes you think about time: how many dollars per hour, how much salary per year, how many years until retirement. Worrying about money forces you to do endless math in your head, and most people didn't like math in high school and they don't like it now."
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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."
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"We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things."
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"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."
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"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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"But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites."
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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