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Money Quotes
"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
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"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."
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"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
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"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."
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"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."
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"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
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"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
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"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."
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"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."
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"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
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"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
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"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."
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"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
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"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
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"I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead."
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"I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche."
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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."
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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."
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"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
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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."
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"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
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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."
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"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
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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."
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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
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