Pete Hamill Quotes

The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

Pete Hamill

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• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Make A Difference

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Money
  • Something
  • Worth

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Brand

• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Money
  • Sports
  • motivation

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Money
  • Want
  • Foundation

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

  

  Larry David
  • Great
  • Money
  • Living

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• 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.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People

• Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Decision

• I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Interesting
  • Happened
  • Curious

• The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can't ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Money
  • Grandpa