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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When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.
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I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.
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I've just always liked hotels. I like the bed and the sheets and everything that comes along with it.
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I never cared about money.
