Joe E. Lewis Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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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.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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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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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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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.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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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!'
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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.
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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.
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I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
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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.
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
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The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.
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I have never in my whole life had a fight with a smart person or even seen anybody else have one either. That is because when the fight starts the smart people are not there anymore. They have gone off someplace else, and when it is over they come back and tell you how much they did in the fight, only it is all lies.
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When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
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I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone.
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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
