Charles Willeford Quotes

It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.

Charles Willeford

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• Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • News
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• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
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• But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

  

  Dabney Coleman
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• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
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• I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Money
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• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Women
  • Children
  • Nothing

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
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• My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Character
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• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Help

• I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Determined

• Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Money

• Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
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• Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Money
  • Done
  • Weird

• I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Money

• I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Fall In Love

• By having much, you are fitted to have more.

  

  James Stephens

• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • God
  • Believe
  • She

• If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Today
  • Passion
  • Dancing

• It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Nothing