Money Quotes
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No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.
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Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.
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I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
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Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.
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There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.
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Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
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Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.
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Of course, the male-directed films make more money.
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We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.
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I got into wrestling to make some money, see the world, and meet girls.
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It's “Into Thin Air” there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best — when we know in reality the one with more money wins.
