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Money Quotes


"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."


"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."


"A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."


"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead."


"It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted."


"Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day."


"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level."


"The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack."



"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."


"I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability."


"As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money."


"It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable."


"I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted."


"I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album."


"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."


"I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility."


"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."


"I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story."


"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."


"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."


"I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money."


"There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money."


"I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill."



"Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets."


"How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it."
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