Million Dollars Quotes - Page 12

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Home, Average

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Years, Two

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.243

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• Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed.

  Pat Condell

  Jesus, Morning, Sunday

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"In Jesus' Name", www.youtube.com. April 25, 2007.

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• Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

  Langdon Winner

  Dollars, Actors, Cows

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• During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Fighting, Grandchildren

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• Ted Cruz raised over a million dollars after announcing that he's running for president. Which is why today RadioShack announced that it is also running for president.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Dollars

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• I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Years, Play, Dollars

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kids, Helping Others, Thinking

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

  Muhammad Ali

  Money, House, Dollars

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• There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Dollars, Moments, Embarrassing

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• Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.

  Sara Blakely

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president? Only great capital can do that. That is why we say that bourgeois democracy has been evolving in the last years into dollar democracy, this is not the democracy of sovereignty, and only the people can determine that.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Years, Democracies Have, People

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

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• I had a million-dollar arm, but I wasn't thinking enough about how to be a pitcher.

  Randy Johnson

  Thinking, Dollars, Arms

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• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Zero, Circles, Dollars

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• If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

  Dale Carnegie

  Wall, People, Dollars

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.106, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby.

  Lil B

  Baby, Dollars, Looks

  "Report: Lil B's NYU Lecture" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. April 11, 2012.

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• There’s definitely times when you’re frustrated for whatever reason, but that happens on fifty million dollar movies when you have a huge trailer, so who cares?

  Zach Gilford

  Frustrated, Who Cares, Dollars

  "Zach Gilford Talks THE PURGE: ANARCHY, The Blumhouse Production Method, Why He Loved Working with Director James DeMonaco, and Deleted Scenes". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 21, 2014.

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• The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, Valleys

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Greed, Rewards

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• If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

  Jim Rohn

  Hands, Dollars, Millionaire

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• 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

  Ed Robertson

  Guy, Dollars, Week

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• None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

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• The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans.

  Eric Fellner

  Dream, Opportunity, Dna

  Source: collider.com

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