Money Quotes

"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout"

Tom Hayden, Politician

"I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money"

Christine McVie, Musician

"Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money"

Little Richard, Musician

"I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead"

Sinbad, Comedian

"If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window"

Suze Orman, Author

"Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either"

Jeff Tweedy, Musician

"Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving"

Florence E. Allen

"I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything"

Dan Hicks, Musician

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time"

David Dinkins, Politician

"So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare"

David Dinkins, Politician

"I don't publish the books to make money, not at all"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"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"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor"

Christine McVie, Musician

"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go"

Young Buck, Musician

"Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"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"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"

Ville Valo, Musician

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