Edmund Burke Quotes
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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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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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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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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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
