W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
Calvin Harris
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
Ted Cruz
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
Adam Jones
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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.
Randall Terry
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
Lady Gaga
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
Lady Gaga
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
Adam DeVine
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Jack Lemmon
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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.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
Frances O'Grady
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.
Don McLean
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac
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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
Lindsay Duncan
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
R. C. Sproul
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham
