Money Quotes
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If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.
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My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
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After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.
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Having loads of money doesn't make you a better person.. Spending it smart does.
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Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
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There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.
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I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.
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You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!
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The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.
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I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.
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You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.
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It's a big message. This is the real deal. It's not watered-down money.
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When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'
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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
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Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
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Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.
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There is nothing inherently evil in the process of making money, and the notion is illogical, but that is one of the underlying tenets in our present education system. We are taught from an early age that making money is hard and that those who make lots of money are morally suspect. American culture studies programs at some of the nation’s leading universities have even gone so far as to teach the absurd and illogical notion that the rich became rich because they enjoy privilege earned on the backs of African slaves. Minority millionaires like entrepreneur Herman Cain, Earl Graves, Sr., and Reginald F. Lewis prove the utter nonsense of this notion, yet this is the illogical Progressive philosophy that has permeated our education system.
