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Money Quotes


"I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it."


"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."



"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."


"I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."


"It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending."


"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."


"If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem."


"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."


"Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes."


"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."


"In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest."


"There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers."


"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."


"Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money."


"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."


"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."


"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."


"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing."


"The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money."


"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher."


"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there."


"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important."


"No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor."


"I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money."



"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example."
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