Money Quotes
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People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of money off of players. You don't get a free education: you work full-time year round for five years for an education you could pay for three times over if you just got your market value.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.
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If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
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The only way we are going to stop this disease is to raise money. Jimmy would go absolutely bananas to know how much money has been raised. We can't just sit back. This disease affects all of us.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.
