Money Quotes
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.
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I literally did it through hard work and dedication. People out there who think you have to have loads of money to do this sport... it just shows you.
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I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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It's never been about making money.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I need a new pair of shoes : I need a new shiny car : I need to buy until I fry : I can not name what I'm trying to : I want my cock an inch bigger : I want new, flawless tits : I'm not enough as I was made, please complete my partial mind : I want my money back, this product has a hole.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.
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When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.
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What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
