Money Quotes
-
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
-
The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
-
Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices.
-
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
-
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
-
What's really underneath this all is the effort by feminist academics and politicians to keep control of the money. It's not about helping anybody.
-
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
-
When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
-
Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money
-
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
-
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
-
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
-
I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
-
It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
-
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.
-
We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
-
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
-
I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.
-
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
-
I don’t know how to get the money but if the radar is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid … They cannot take money from a poor country.
-
I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.
-
I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s.
-
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you don’t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better. So it’s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.
-
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
