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Money Quotes


"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."


"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."


"These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things."


"I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music."


"It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury."


"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."


"If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry."


"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."


"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."


"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially."


"The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981."


"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet."


"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."


"I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money?"


"In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend."


"The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms."


"It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races."


"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."


"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."


"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."


"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you."


"Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us."


"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence."


"I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it."


"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children."



"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."


"Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in."


"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."


"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid."


"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
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