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Money Quotes


"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."


"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."



"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."


"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."


"In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend."


"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."


"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."


"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."


"My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money."


"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."


"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."



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



"It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money."


"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."


"The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent."


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



"Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn."


"Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it."



"Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face."


"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich."



"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."



"A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."



"I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability."


"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."



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


"It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it."


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