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Money Quotes
"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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"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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"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."
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"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing."
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"There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty."
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"The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit."
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"The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
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"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please."
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"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially."
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"The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money."
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"Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it."
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"I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me."
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"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."
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"Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start."
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"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."
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"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
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"In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend."
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"The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms."
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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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"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money."
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"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
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"You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money."
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"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."
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"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."
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"What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money."
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"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."
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"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career."
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"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you."
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"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."
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"I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills."
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"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."
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"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
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