Joe E. Lewis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
-
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
-
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
-
I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
-
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
-
When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
-
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
-
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
-
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
-
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
-
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
-
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
-
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
-
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
-
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
-
I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
-
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
-
It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
-
If you're doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that's perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.
-
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
-
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.
-
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
-
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
-
Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
