I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills. ~By Marcy Kaptur ~
I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! ~By Cy Coleman ~
It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that. ~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible. ~By Eugene Ormandy ~
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ~By Henry Miller ~
Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. ~By Joe Moore ~
It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing. ~By John Doerr ~
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. ~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket. ~By Adam Sandler ~
As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know. ~By Peter Porter ~
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure. ~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. ~By John Updike ~
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. ~By Neil Abercrombie ~
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 ~
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ~By James L. Buckley ~
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. ~By Dennis Rodman ~
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. ~By Thomas More ~
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. ~By Robert Byrd ~
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. ~By Robbie Coltrane ~
Go where the money is... and go there often. ~By Willie Sutton ~
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. ~By Giorgio Moroder ~
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. ~By Jesse Ventura ~
I think money in general hurts all sports. ~By Will McDonough ~
I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth. ~By Angela Merkel ~
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ~By Leslie Caron ~
I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will. ~By Judd Nelson ~
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. ~By Matt Gonzalez ~
Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift. ~By Soundarya ~
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. ~By Muhammad Yunus ~
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. ~By Richard Wagner ~
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. ~By Stanley Weiser ~
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it. ~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. ~By Leo Durocher ~
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. ~By Giorgio Moroder ~
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. ~By Francis Bacon ~
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. ~By Edvard Munch ~
I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid. ~By Anna Nicole Smith ~
I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money. ~By David R. Ellis ~
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. ~By Ben Gibbard ~
I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. ~By Alain Prost ~
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. ~By Dave Barry ~
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. ~By David Cronenberg ~
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. ~By Ted Allen ~
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in. ~By Gene Siskel ~
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. ~By Joe Moore ~
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in. ~By Kevin Spacey ~
We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make. ~By Eric Idle ~
Money cannot buy happiness. ~By Annni-Frid Lyngstad ~
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. ~By J. Paul Getty ~
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? ~By Richard M. Daley ~
The American Dream is really money. ~By Jill Robinson ~
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' ~By Robert B. Parker ~
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. ~By Dennis Hastert ~
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money. ~By Patricia Heaton ~
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves. ~By Sean O'Casey ~
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. ~By Bill Murray ~
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money. ~By Daniel J. Evans ~
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. ~By Robert Scheer ~
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. ~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in. ~By Anita Roddick ~
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ~By Eva Braun ~
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. ~By Theodore White ~
Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone. ~By Ronnie Spector ~
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ~By Paul Auster ~
It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money. ~By Lisa Nicole Carson ~
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ~By Gunther Schuller ~
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ~By Hunter S. Thompson ~
I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof. ~By Allan Carr ~
I won't make a movie for money ever again. ~By Ryan Phillippe ~
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian. ~By Larry David ~
I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got. ~By Freddie Mercury ~
I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked. ~By Muhammad Yunus ~
I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again. ~By Andrew Gould ~
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world. ~By Iris Sawyer ~
I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could. ~By Kamisese Mara ~
I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for. ~By Joe Murray ~
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power. ~By Frances McDormand ~
We are now after 7 months operation making money here. ~By Henry Wells ~
Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either. ~By Kristin Davis ~
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. ~By Jim Carrey ~
I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years. ~By Brett Hull ~
If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive. ~By James E. Rogers ~
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~By Pablo Picasso ~
We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience. ~By Shawn Wayans ~
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. ~By Josiah Stamp ~
Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me. ~By Robert Vaughn ~
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 ~
I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control. ~By Yancy Butler ~
San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be. ~By Les Claypool ~
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. ~By W. C. Fields ~
I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do. ~By John Galliano ~
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? ~By Ayn Rand ~
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved. ~By Greg Lake ~
So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out. ~By Dudley North ~
Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me. ~By Brownie McGhee ~
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