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Money Quotes
"Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation."
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"The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives."
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"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
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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."
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"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements."
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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
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"Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest."
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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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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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"That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money."
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"We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made."
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"I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had."
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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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"I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners."
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"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."
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"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
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"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."
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"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your 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."
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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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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."
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"They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money."
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"Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing."
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"Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."
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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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"But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make."
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"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."
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"That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'."
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"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."
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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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"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being."
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
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