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Money Quotes
"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers."
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"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
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"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
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"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
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"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
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"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
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"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
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"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."
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"He thinks we're made of money."
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"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money."
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"Money is 'limited' and people's demands are 'unlimited'."
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"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."
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"I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career."
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"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."
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"Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer."
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them."
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"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
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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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"It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now."
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"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
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"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."
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"I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"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."
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"But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference."
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"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."
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"By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important."
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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