Money Quotes
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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I tend to be pretty conservative in the way I spend money.
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The closest I get to any sort of 'designer' items would probably be my weakness for jeans - they don't have to be any particular brand, but I'm willing to do almost anything, go anywhere, spend obscene amounts of money for that elusive 'perfect pair.'
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Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
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When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.
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Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.
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Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.
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Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.
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The rule of Big Money and its attendant culture of cupidity and mendacity has so poisoned our hearts, minds and souls that a dominant self-righteous neoliberal soulcraft of smartness, dollars and bombs thrives with little opposition.
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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
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Rich kids got a lot to say. Rich kids never have to pay. Everything’s funny when you’re young with money. And mommy and daddy will pay the way.
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We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
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I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'
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O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
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I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.
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I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.
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I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.
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The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
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If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
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As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
