Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes

It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

• Money
• System
• Kills
• Human Spirit

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• Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Money
  • Acting
  • Doing

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Money
  • New

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Money
  • Know
  • Risk

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

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

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Small
  • Film

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Vacation

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movies

• I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Think
  • Die

• People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I think I am still underpaid. I want to make as much money as my male counterparts.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • MAle
  • Counterparts

• I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Religious

• I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Outfit

• Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

  

  Alexis Herman
  • People
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • King

• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Money
  • System
  • Kills