Dollars Quotes - Page 3

• In this nation, leadership is dollars.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, Nations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

  Toby Keith

  Doors, Legs, Lasts

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Average, People

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• I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

  Elia Kazan

  Acting, Nasty, Minutes

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• It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Revolutionary, Made

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• It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

  Hortense Odlum

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

  Dennis Wilson

  Two, Numbers, Records

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• It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Good Movie, Needs

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Jobs, Community, Benefits

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• You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

  Jason Patric

  Passion, People, Stories

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• We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

  Bill Shuster

  Religious, Prayer, Years

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• Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

  John M. McHugh

  Environment, Destroying, Taxpayers

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• Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

  Duke Snider

  Morning, Team, Men

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

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

  Joseph Barbera

  Jobs, Men, Years

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

  Jan de Bont

  Summer, Thinking, Want

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• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Iraq, Reform

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• Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

  Kit Carson

  Thinking, Hundred, Spending

  Kit Carson, Blanche Chloe Grant (2006). “Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life”, p.20, Sunstone Press

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• If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

  Dick Schaap

  Thinking, Columns, Stills

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• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Morgan Spurlock

  School, Kids, Ideas

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Player, Today

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• There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Europe, Connections, Hegemony

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• Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Years, Band, Bills

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• The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

  S. Robson Walton

  Running, President, Needs

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• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  George Axelrod

  Girl, Giving, Gentleman

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