Money Quotes
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You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.
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Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.
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I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.
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Whenever people are trying to give you money, and you're like, 'No! Don't,' you have to stop and consider, what am I saying no to?
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I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.
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When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
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We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.
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You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.
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A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.
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The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
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You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.
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When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.
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The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.
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There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
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If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
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Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
