Money Quotes
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'Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?' But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.' And that is true. In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.'
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I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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You must spend money to make money.
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Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
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I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.
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I think everyone is making a lot of money, whether it is the actors, the producers, or the TV channels.
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People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.
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If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.
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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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You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
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One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
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Even in his heyday, when he was being commissioned to write pieces, Mozart was a starving artist. He partied, he blew his money, he drank it away. I'm sure it parallels a lot of bands and musicians. He lived it up and didn't set anything aside and he died poor. That's rock 'n' roll.
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I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.
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When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.
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I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
