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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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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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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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.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
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I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.
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I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
