Eden Phillpotts Quotes
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Money just draws flies.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
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The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
