Allan Boesak Quotes

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

Allan Boesak

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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 potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
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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.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

  

  Manute Bol
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• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

  

  Salli Richardson
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• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Real
  • Money
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• Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Money
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• Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Money
  • Technology
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• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.

  

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  • Sense

• Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

  

  David MacKenzie
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• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

  

  Jonathan Swift
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  • Man
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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
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• "He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Want
  • Protect
  • Defense

• I've never seen myself as a celebrity, but I see it in a positive way, the fact that people are still interested in most parts of my life.

  

  David Beckham
  • People
  • Life
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• I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

  

  Allan Boesak
  • Money
  • Sense
  • Politician