Million Dollars Quotes - Page 2

• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Presidential, Democracy, Doe

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?

  Jordan Belfort

  Average, Twenties, Dollars

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.176, Bantam

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• The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Good Movie, Example, Dollars

  Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. December 24, 2007.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Risk, Acting

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• With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Dollars, Investing

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• A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

  Arthur Miller

  Boys, Doctors, Dollars

  Arthur Miller (1947). “All My Sons: Drama in Three Acts”, p.10, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Queens, Wall, Years

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• If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

  Jon Stewart

  Advice, Dollars, Investing

  "Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2009.

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• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Giving, Community, Troops

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• During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, Years

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• We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.

  Spencer Pratt

  Dollars, Asteroids, Ends

  "How Heidi and Spencer Pratt blew $10 million". www.news.com.au. December 5, 2013.

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• I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

  Glenn Beck

  Morning, Thinking, Dollars

  "Nobody's Watching Charlie Rose". Interview with James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 16, 2010.

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• I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

  Antonio Banderas

  Home, House, Musical

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• Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

  Elon Musk

  Land, Dollars, Mars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  James Surowiecki

  Opportunity, Apples, Google

  "Groupon Clipping". www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Stupid, Dumb, Dollars

  "Elizabeth Taylor obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  Brian Wilson

  Dollars, Vote, Enough

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Life, Success

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  Bob Woodward

  Lying, Voice, Dollars

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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

  Dave Barry

  Silly, Thinking, Tanks

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• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  Imelda Marcos

  Respect, Dresses, Dollars

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• I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

  Ray Manzarek

  Erotic, Intellectual, Dollars

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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