Chuck Feeney Quotes
I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.
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I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
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A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.
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I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.
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They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
