Money Quotes
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I think it’s a good reality check to grow up in New York, because every day you’re exposed to people from all parts of the world, people that don’t have any money, people who live on the street, rich people - especially if you’re not sheltered.
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I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
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I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!
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My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.
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I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.
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I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
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Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.
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Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.
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One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
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That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
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Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
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What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.
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It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
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I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'
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It was never about the money for me, it was about doing something that I loved, it was more about passion.
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The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
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My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
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To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.
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I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.
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From the age of 11, I was taught the importance of earning my own money. I would babysit, walk dogs, clean cars, and work at the local corner shop and the butcher's. If I wanted to buy something, I always bought it myself.
