Money Quotes
-
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not-or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.
-
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
-
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
-
Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.
-
I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.
-
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
-
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
-
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
-
It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.
-
I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.
-
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!
-
And there are a lot of groups or mayors that might say, hey, I need the money. I have budget deficit, so I have to do it and they do it. It doesn't matter what the community wants or where the money comes from?
-
I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
-
It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.
-
We spend a lot of extra money that we don't have to, you know, for the fans, just so they can make it more of an experience than a concert.
-
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
-
What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.
-
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
-
Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
-
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
-
People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money.
-
And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.
-
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
-
People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.
