Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. ~By Laura Miller ~
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job. ~By Sela Ward ~
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money. ~By Muddy Waters ~
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. ~By Alan Ladd ~
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. ~By Taylor Caldwell ~
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ~By George Farquhar ~
In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. ~By Peter Garrett ~
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. ~By Hugh Grant ~
Money without brains is always dangerous. ~By Napoleon Hill ~
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. ~By Duke Ellington ~
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders. ~By Vito Fossella ~
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. ~By Kevin Bacon ~
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. ~By Harry Houdini ~
I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game. ~By Patricia Richardson ~
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window. ~By Suze Orman ~
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important. ~By Jim Valvano ~
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 ~
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. ~By Ted Turner ~
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing. ~By Ben E. King ~
I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this. ~By Terence Stamp ~
I used practically all the money I had available. ~By Bernie Ebbers ~
The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama? ~By Juan Williams ~
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 ~
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ~By Margaret Walker ~
We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ~By Arthur Capper ~
It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion. ~By Eric Cantor ~
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ~By Igor Stravinsky ~
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. ~By William Colby ~
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. ~By Sergei Bubka ~
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what? ~By John Simon ~
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. ~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient. ~By Daniel Yergin ~
It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores. ~By Katie Holmes ~
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. ~By Mother Teresa ~
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. ~By Robert Graves ~
If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants. ~By Montel Williams ~
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away. ~By Lynn Johnston ~
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. ~By Suze Orman ~
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~By Stephen Leacock ~
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. ~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. ~By Rick Wright ~
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. ~By Pete Rose ~
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid. ~By Dennis Rodman ~
We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. ~By Graham Nash ~
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. ~By Bill Vaughan ~
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~By J. Paul Getty ~
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ~By William Blake ~
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director. ~By Charles S. Dutton ~
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship. ~By Christie Hefner ~
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. ~By Robin Leach ~
Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ~By Meryl Streep ~
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 ~
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. ~By Renny Harlin ~
What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money. ~By Jack Kingston ~
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does. ~By Mason Cooley ~
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. ~By Louis L'Amour ~
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money. ~By Charles S. Dutton ~
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero. ~By Tim Scott ~
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. ~By Lucy Lawless ~
Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances. ~By Jerry Stiller ~
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money. ~By Matthew Modine ~
It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic. ~By Rachel Zoe ~
And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow. ~By Jim Henson ~
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. ~By Charles Dickens ~
I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field. ~By Josh Brolin ~
Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money. ~By Richard King ~
Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day. ~By Janice Dickinson ~
I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. ~By Bill Murray ~
It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position. ~By Shirley Booth ~
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood. ~By Don Bluth ~
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race. ~By William Weld ~
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable. ~By Noah Hathaway ~
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. ~By Philip Green ~
I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen. ~By Kato Kaelin ~
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ~By Jackie Kennedy ~
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. ~By Ron Paul ~
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. ~By Genevieve Gorder ~
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 ~
Money? I lost all taste for it. ~By Taylor Caldwell ~
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then. ~By Antonio Banderas ~
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved. ~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. ~By Todd Tiahrt ~
I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business. ~By Matthew Lesko ~
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo! ~By Sumner Redstone ~
I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me. ~By Johnny Ramone ~
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. ~By James Taylor ~
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture. ~By Griffin Dunne ~
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. ~By Lara St. John ~
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. ~By Dorothy Day ~
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 donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids. ~By Picabo Street ~
I know that money speaks more loudly than need. ~By Knute Nelson ~
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. ~By Earl Warren ~
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