Money Quotes
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Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
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If you create a relationship that's based, to some extent, on support and money, it creates an entirely different relationship because people are going to be behaving in certain ways to please you, and not in their natural way.
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When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers' and directors' heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.
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I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
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Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass in Congress, thousands of lives will be saved.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
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What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators, creditors and counterparties know the details of a deal and have their own money on the line.
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'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'
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There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.
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We cannot accept the status quo of throwing more taxpayer money into a broke and broken system.
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Wall Street figured out that, with the amount of money they could make off timber harvests, relative to the rapid increase in land prices, the return on investment isn't enough. It's become more important as a real estate investment than as a forest-management investment.
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
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In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
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You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
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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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I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.
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People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
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My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
