Money Quotes
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
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Honestly, I'm such a shoe girl. I like to save money, and I like to spend money on shoes.
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John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.
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The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
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Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
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I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
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I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.
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Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
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The moment we begin to map the history of money across the last five thousand years of Eurasian history, startling patterns begin to emerge.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
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When I moved to New York City from Israel, I came here with the idea to get a great job, have tons of fun, and make a lot of money. Growing up in Israel, I watched a lot of American TV, and I thought it's what the 'cool' people did, and I wanted the same thing.
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More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.
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I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.
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Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.
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Everybody's over here to make money for themselves.
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Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
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It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.
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Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
