Money Quotes
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.
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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
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Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.
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For Pocketbook Environmentalists, financial savings are the primary motivator. However Pocketbook Environmentalists are changing the face of the market and the planet for the better by demanding that going green saves you money.
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We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.
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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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My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
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If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.
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We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
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I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
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The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.
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Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
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So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
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The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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We want to be rich in order not to think about money but rich people think about them all the time.
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I've made my career, made money in real estate and real estate development.
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Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
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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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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.
