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Money Quotes
"You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money."
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
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"But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral."
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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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"Modern money is almost altogether credit money."
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"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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"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it."
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"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."
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"I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days."
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"I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me."
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"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
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"War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money."
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"I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money."
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"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
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"I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans."
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"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money."
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"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."
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"The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain."
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"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
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"People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things."
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"If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone."
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"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
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"What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now."
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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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"Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show."
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"I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington."
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"I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit."
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