Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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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.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
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A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer 'yes.'
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This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.
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I never cared about money.
