Money Quotes

"The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do"

Wes Boyd, Activist

"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn"

Robin Cousins, Athlete

"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives"

Jeb Bush, Politician

"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music"

James Marsters, Actor

"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance"

Placido Domingo, Musician

"We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk"

Lucas Grabeel, Actor

"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"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"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"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"

Antonio Banderas, Actor

"It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money"

Ruth Rendell, Writer

"As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money"

Martin Cruz Smith, Writer

"The only thing I like about rich people is their money"

Nancy Astor, Politician

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life"

Michael LeBoeuf, Businessman

"Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace"

John Murray

"I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos"

Dee Dee Warwick, Musician

"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left"

Ang Lee, Director

"The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money"

Tony Oliva, Athlete

"If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing that I wouldn't be working for porn mags. But I got to make a living. I shoot for them only occasionally now because that business isn't what it used to be"

Richard Kern

"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year"

Neil Abercrombie, Politician

"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it"

Neil Abercrombie, Politician

"It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing"

Ken Jennings, Celebrity

"Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it"

Robert McCloskey, Author

"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"We spent a lot of money on some players"

Bobby Bonilla, Athlete

"I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels"

Abraham Whipple, Soldier

"Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy"

Eddie Barclay, Musician

"I used practically all the money I had available"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election"

Olympia Snowe, Politician

"I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money"

Ian MacKaye, Musician

"I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that"

George Brett, Athlete

"I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy"

Tom Petty, Musician

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