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Money Quotes


"Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money."


"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."


"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."



"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."


"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."


"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."


"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."


"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."


"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."


"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."


"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."


"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."



"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."


"Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem."


"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."


"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."



"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."


"Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is."


"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."


"I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever."


"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."


"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."



"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."


"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."


"It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary."



"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."


"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."


"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."



"The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money."
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