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Money Quotes
"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."
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"When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next."
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"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."
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"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
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"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."
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"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it 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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"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money."
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"Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off."
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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 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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"For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back."
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"You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA."
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"An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money."
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"I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct."
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"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, "What for?" I said, "I'm going to buy some sugar.""
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"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."
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"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
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"No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent."
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"I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?"
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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"I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves."
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"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children."
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"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."
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"I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music."
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"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
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"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."
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