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"Money just draws flies."
Mahalia Jackson
"Money just draws flies."
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"Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money."
Earl Warren
"Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money."
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"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
Vin Diesel
"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
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"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."
Alma Guillermoprieto
"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."
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"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."
Joe E. Lewis
"It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money."
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"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."
W. Somerset Maugham
"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."
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"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."
Christie Hefner
"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn."
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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 costs too much."
Ross MacDonald
"Money costs too much."
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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."
Brian Mulroney
"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 got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."
Duncan Sheik
"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."
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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."
David Guterson
"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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"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."
Linda Chavez
"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."
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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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"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."
Gene Tierney
"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."
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"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."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"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."
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"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
Diana Ross
"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
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"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Stephen Sondheim
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
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"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."
Larry Holmes
"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."
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"It's all about the money."
Joseph Jackson
"It's all about the money."
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"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."
Bryan Ferry
"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."
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"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."
Jessica Hahn
"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."
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"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
Georg Simmel
"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
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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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"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely."
Jim McKay
"Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely."
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"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end."
Robert Redford
"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end."
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"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."
Donald G. Mitchell
"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."
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"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."
Esther Dyson
"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."
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"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."
Joanna Newsom
"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."
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"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
Guy Ritchie
"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
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"So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends."
David Strathairn
"So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends."
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"Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum."
Joe E. Lewis
"Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum."
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
Lord Acton
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
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"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."
River Phoenix
"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."
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"My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move."
Alfred Molina
"My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move."
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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
Marlon Brando
"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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"There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be."
Johnny Depp
"There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be."
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"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."
Dada Bhagwan
"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."
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"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
Walter Annenberg
"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
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"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
Arnold Bennett
"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
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"You can win, it'll just cost you some money."
Bobby Heenan
"You can win, it'll just cost you some money."
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"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
Jean Anouilh
"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
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"Money is just a way of keeping score."
H. L. Hunt
"Money is just a way of keeping score."
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"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."
Robert Byrd
"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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"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."
John Dryden
"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."
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"It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves."
Taylor Caldwell
"It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves."
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"Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."
Gary Oldman
"Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."
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"Politics is not about money."
Paul Wellstone
"Politics is not about money."
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"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."
Bernard Baruch
"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
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