Lots Of Money Quotes - Page 24

• Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

  Jaron Lanier

  Medicine, Failing, Software

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• And it's very, very funny
  When you've lots and lots of money
  To be horrible to those with none!
  Be horrible to those with none!

  Anna Russell

  Horrible

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• I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

  Larry Ellison

  Winning, America, People

  "Streets of San Francisco" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. July 30, 2002.

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• Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

  Amber Benson

  Life Is Short, House, Sitting

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• If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

  Daniel Craig

  Past, Thinking, Drunk

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Simple, People

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.

  Val Kilmer

  Jobs, Sound, May

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

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• Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.

  Val Kilmer

  Fun, Hollywood, Bigs

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• I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

  Robert Crumb

  Dollars, Records, Artwork

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

  Robert Crumb

  Couple, Special, Lines

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Reason

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• I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, People

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• I like well-made clothes, and I don't mind spending a lot of money on something that looks super, super simple. I don't like knockoffs.

  Micah Lexier

  Simple, Clothes, Mind

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Needs, May

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• Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Winning, Hands

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• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, youre still going to get through the day. But it doesnt make you a happy person if you werent a happy person before.

  Gary David

  Worry, Car, Breaking Down

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• Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

  Phil Daniels

  Art, Drama, School

  "Phil Daniels: 'Playing to thousands of people with Blur is not as daunting as doing a play in a small theatre'". Interview with Hannah Olivennes, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Kristen Stewart’s Vogue Cover". Interview with Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

  Questlove

  College, Cities, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

  Jonathan Horton

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

  Jim Rogers

  Want, Diversification, Ifs

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.61, Crown Business

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• Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous.

  Linus Torvalds

  Humble, Care, Rich

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• There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Jobs, May, Bears

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• People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

  Jay Leno

  People, Mind, Ifs

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

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