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Money Quotes



"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money."


"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."


"We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war."


"Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."


"To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee."


"I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money."


"We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on."


"You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather."


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


"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."


"Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money."


"Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you."


"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."


"It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best."


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


"This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it."


"Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation."


"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."


"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."


"But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year."


"Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents."


"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."


"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."


"Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was."


"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."


"One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray."


"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."


"The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."


"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."


"I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself."


"I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with."


"The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research."


"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."


"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."


"Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character."
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