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Money Quotes


"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it."


"I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it."


"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."


"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."


"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money."


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


"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."


"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."


"When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next."


"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."


"I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners."


"I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money."


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


"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."


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


"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."


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


"It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it."


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


"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."


"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."


"You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA."


"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."


"Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money."


"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"


"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."


"But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well."


"In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money."
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