A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.
~By Renny Harlin ~
People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.
~By Thomas Dooley ~
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.
~By Dudley North ~
Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
~By Paul McCartney ~
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
~By Jackson Browne ~
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
~By William Allan ~
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
~By Jim Cramer ~
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
~By Linford Christie ~
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
~By Eric Cantor ~
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
~By Willie Nelson ~
That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?
~By Miriam Hopkins ~
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
~By Marc Chagall ~
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
~By Tim Roth ~
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
~By Peter Cooper ~
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
~By Drew Carey ~
I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.
~By Brian Welch ~
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
~By Marlon Brando ~
Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
~By Jack Kilby ~
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~By Douglas Adams ~
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
~By James Spader ~
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
~By Bob Riley ~
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
~By Steve Chabot ~
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
Life started getting good when I started making money.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
~By Dixie Carter ~
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.
~By Ruben Blades ~
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
~By Alice Barrett ~
Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.
~By Morrie Ryskind ~
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
~By Ted Rall ~
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
~By Jonathan Demme ~
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.
~By Michelle Wie ~
Business money is limitless.
~By Muhammad Yunus ~
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
~By Sue Wicks ~
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
~By Marlon Brando ~
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
~By Anna Nicole Smith ~
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
~By Billy Sunday ~
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
~By Buck Baker ~
I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.
~By Benny Hinn ~
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
~By Doris Lilly ~
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
~By Steve Forbes ~
We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.
~By John Redwood ~
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
~By John Updike ~
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
I made my money by selling too soon.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
~By Bill Murray ~
I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.
~By Owen Hart ~
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
~By Bob Filner ~
Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
~By Marc Morial ~
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
~By Alexandra Kosteniuk ~
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
~By Mark Millar ~
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
~By John Barrymore ~
And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
~By Larry Hagman ~
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.
~By Bill Ford ~
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
~By Richard Pryor ~
I'm always worried about my money for some reason.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
~By Richard Stallman ~
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
~By Leland Stanford ~
There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.
~By Sebastian Bach ~
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
~By Kit Carson ~
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
~By Bob Hope ~
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
~By Mark Twain ~
Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.
~By Moira Kelly ~
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
~By Josh Billings ~
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
~By Mark Edwards ~
I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
~By Brion James ~
I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
~By Salvador Dali ~
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