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Money Quotes

"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."

"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

Money, Creativity, Theory

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"For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment."

"For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment."

Grace Napolitano, American Politician

Money, People, Idea, Investment

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"That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?"

"That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?"

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Money, Work, Job, Years

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"I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed."

"I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Money, War, Work, Giving

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

Imogen Cunningham, American Photographer

Money, Desire, Portraits

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"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

Molly Ivins, American Journalist

Money, Women, Office, Vote

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"At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards."

"At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards."

Mort Kondracke, American Journalist

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"The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies."

"The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies."

Teddy Sheringham, English Athlete

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"The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts."

"The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts."

Michael Oxley, American Politician

Money, Liberal, Months, President

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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."

"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."

Ted Turner, American Businessman

Money, War, Financial, Blood

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"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."

"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."

Curt Flood, American Athlete

Money, Coaching, Fame, Jobs

30

"I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money."

"I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money."

Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi Statesman

Money, People, Community, Iraq

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"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."

Susan B. Anthony, American Activist

Money, People, Church, Children

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"Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money."

"Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money."

Ed O'Neill, American Actor

Money, Reason, Security

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"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it."

"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Money, Summer, Teachers

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"A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money."

"A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money."

David Ricardo, British Economist

Money, Cause, Wages, Will

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"No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money."

"No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money."

McLean Stevenson, American Actor

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"My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge."

"My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge."

Rick Santorum, American Politician

Money, Feeling, Right

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"I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized."

"I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized."

Bobby Sherman, American Musician

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"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."

"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."

Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

Money, Hollywood, Reality

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"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records."

"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records."

Matthew Sweet, American Musician

Money, Success, Nothing, Now

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"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc."

"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc."

Roger Maris, American Athlete

Money, Business

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"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright

Money, Hope, Help, Poor

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"Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs."

"Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs."

Dana Rohrabacher, American Politician

Money, Children, Struggle

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"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."

Humphrey Bogart, American Actor

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"Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste."

"Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste."

Daniel Starch, American Psychologist

Money, People, Advertising, Waste

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"Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us."

"Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us."

Vic Morrow, American Actor

Money, Production, Right, Wood

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"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color."

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

Money, People, Hate

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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."

"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."

Jerry Pournelle, American Journalist

Money, People, Idiots

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"Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights."

"Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights."

Richard Barnfield, English Poet

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"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."

"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

Money, Land, Now, State

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"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."

"Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."

George Gissing, British Novelist

Money, Time, Truth

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"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money."

"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money."

Charles S. Dutton, American Actor

Money, Life, Acting

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"We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible."

"We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible."

Marguerite Moreau, American Actress

Money, Film, Worry

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"If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources."

"If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

Money, People, Strategy, Winning

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"I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works."

"I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works."

Jim Cramer, American Businessman

Money, Numbers, World

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"The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors."

"The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors."

Jim Cramer, American Businessman

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"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."

"But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

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"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice."

"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice."

Andrea Dworkin, American Critic

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"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."

"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."

Josiah Warren, American Inventor

Money, Corruption, Cruelty, Fraud

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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."

"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."

Frank Luntz, American Politician

Money, Jury, Language, Law

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"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."

"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."

Beverly Johnson, American Model

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"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."

"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

Money, Work, Church, Want

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

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

Katherine Whitehorn, British Journalist

Money, People, Talk

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"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."

"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Money, End, Hollywood

29

"To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that."

"To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that."

Jerry West, American Artist

Money, Sports, Athletes

29

"San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be."

"San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be."

Les Claypool, American Musician

Money, Environment, Now

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"I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof."

"I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof."

Allan Carr, British Director

Money, Church, First

29

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

Suze Orman, American Author

Money, Financial, May, Opposites

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"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

Elliott Smith, American Musician

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