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Money Quotes
"Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level."
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"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
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"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."
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"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available."
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"There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to."
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"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
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"If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that."
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"The only thing I like about rich people is their money."
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"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money."
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"Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money."
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"And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock."
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"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working."
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"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."
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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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"The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981."
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"I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money."
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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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"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
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"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."
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"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."
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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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"If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it."
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"I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy."
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"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."
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"I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing."
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"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."
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"Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned."
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"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
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"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children."
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"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
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"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."
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