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"Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!"
Buddy Guy
"Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!"
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"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
John Wanamaker
"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
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"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
Louisa May Alcott
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
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"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
Garth Brooks
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
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"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
Jackie Chan
"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
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"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
Linus Torvalds
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."
Mitchell Baker
"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."
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"I do them all for the money, I really do."
William H. Macy
"I do them all for the money, I really do."
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"This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money."
Agnetha Faltskog
"This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money."
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"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
Mary Chapin Carpenter
"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."
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"That's where the money is, on the road."
Aries Spears
"That's where the money is, on the road."
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"What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER."
Dave Thomas
"What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER."
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"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper."
Charles Mackay
"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper."
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"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list."
Lee Trevino
"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list."
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"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
Mary Kay Ash
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
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"All money is a matter of belief."
Adam Smith
"All money is a matter of belief."
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"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."
J. Edgar Hoover
"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money."
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"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
Bill Vaughan
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
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"From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune."
Ferdinand Lassalle
"From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune."
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"We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well."
Robby Krieger
"We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well."
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
James A. Baldwin
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
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"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
Iris DeMent
"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money."
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"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
Davy Crockett
"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
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"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
Warren Buffett
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
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"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Virginia Woolf
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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"I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money."
Diana Ross
"I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money."
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"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
Suze Orman
"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window."
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"It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people."
Richard Neal
"It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people."
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"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."
Matthew Modine
"I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money."
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"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."
Damon Runyon
"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."
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"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
Bill Murray
"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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"Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what."
Jackson Browne
"Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what."
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"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."
Tom Glazer
"I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized."
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"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
George Soros
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
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"I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film."
Atom Egoyan
"I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film."
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"At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned."
Phil Knight
"At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned."
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"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
George Best
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
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"Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."
Dennis Rodman
"Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."
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"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
Edgar Bergen
"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"
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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
Manuel Puig
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."
Jon Bon Jovi
"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."
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"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."
Glenda Jackson
"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."
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"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."
Dorothy Fields
"Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money."
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"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
Edith Piaf
"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
James A. Garfield
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
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"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
Paul Newman
"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
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"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."
Peter Berg
"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."
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"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."
John Lee Hooker
"Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it."
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