 Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. Author: A. A. Milne
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| The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation. Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
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| I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Money has no moral opinions. Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| You must never throw away things that are worth good money. Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. Author: Abraham Whipple
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| Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Author: Ad Reinhardt
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| There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. Author: Adam Duritz
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| When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you. Author: Adam Duritz
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| People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me. Author: Adam Garcia
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| They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money. Author: Adam Garcia
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| We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. Author: Adam Jones
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| Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions. Author: Adam Osborne
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| So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. Author: Adam Rich
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| You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff. Author: Adam Rich
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| I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket. Author: Adam Sandler
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| All money is a matter of belief. Author: Adam Smith
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| Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. Author: Adam Smith
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| Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. Author: Adam Smith
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| No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. Author: Adam Smith
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| There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. Author: Adolf Loos
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| Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Author: Adriana Lima
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| Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Author: Agatha Christie
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| But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money. Author: Ahmed Chalabi
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| In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table. Author: Al Alvarez
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| A fool and his money get a lot of publicity. Author: Al Bernstein
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| You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs. Author: Al D'Amato
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| We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! Author: Al Dubin
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| The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. Author: Al Franken
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| Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. Author: Al Franken
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| I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. Author: Alain Prost
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| Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing. Author: Alain Resnais
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| If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money. Author: Alan Alda
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| Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. Author: Alan Ayckbourn
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| I think everything depends on money. Author: Alan Bean
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| In almost every survey of consumers, they say they don't mind spending money. What they hate is the shopping experience. Author: Alan Bush
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| I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent. Author: Alan Hansen
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| It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office. Author: Alan Ladd
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| Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. Author: Alan Ladd
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| The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Author: Alan Watts
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| Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. Author: Alanis Morissette
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| It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it. Author: Alanna Ubach
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| If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money. Author: Albert Brooks
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| It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Author: Albert Camus
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| It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Author: Albert Camus
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| It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. Author: Albert J. Nock
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| Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. Author: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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| When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties. Author: Aldrich Ames
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| Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. Author: Alessandro Del Piero
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| From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. Author: Alex Campbell
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| I think even if I did the research mentioned above, it would be a total waste of money because if those people don't believe in the testimonials, they won't believe in the research at all. They would say that I made it all up. So why waste money? Author: Alex Chiu
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| Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition. Author: Alexandra Kosteniuk
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| Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. Author: Alexandre Dumas
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| Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money. Author: Alexis Arguello
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| When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport. Author: Alexis Arguello
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| When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen. Author: Alexis Arguello
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| As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. Author: Alfred Marshall
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| Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. Author: Alfred Marshall
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| The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. Author: Alfred Marshall
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| My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move. Author: Alfred Molina
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| I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. Author: Alice Barrett
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| The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. Author: Alice Walker
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| When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do. Author: Alison Moyet
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| 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. Author: Allan Carr
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| The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income. Author: Alma Guillermoprieto
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| Money is a never-ending problem. Author: Alvin Ailey
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| I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night. Author: Amanda Holden
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| Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money. Author: Amiri Baraka
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| My philosophy has always been, "do what you love and the money will follow." Author: Amy Weber
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| Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. Author: Anacreon
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| For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. Author: Andrea Dworkin
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| There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Author: Andrew Carnegie
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| I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again. Author: Andrew Gould
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| Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. Author: Andrew Jackson
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| Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. Author: Andrew Mellon
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| The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level. Author: Andrew Shue
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| A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Author: Andy Warhol
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| I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. Author: Andy Warhol
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| Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Author: Andy Warhol
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| 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. Author: Ang Lee
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| 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. Author: Angela Merkel
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| Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. Author: Angela Merkel
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| I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. Author: Angelina Jolie
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| I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. Author: Anita Roddick
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