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• When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Clothes, Pockets

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

  Chris Sacca

  People, Jerk, Crisis

  Chris Sacca's commencement address at the Carlson School of Management in Minnesota, www.youtube.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, People, Film

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• I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

  Lucy Liu

  Queens, Height, Taught

  "Minority model" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2003.

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• In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

  Peter Garrett

  Stars, People, Patterns

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

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• I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, New York, League

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• I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Men, Quitting

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• I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Jobs, New York, Television

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• No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

  Donna Tartt

  Oatmeal, Holes, Sock

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

  Donald Sutherland

  Scotch, Circles, Sitting

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

  Harvey Milk

  Rights, San Francisco, Numbers

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• But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

  George MacDonald

  Unhappy, Rich, Slave

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• You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

  Amy Heckerling

  Cost, Tiny, Tomorrow

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

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• Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Growth, Debt, Pay

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

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• Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.

  Doc Pomus

  Song, Loneliness, Ghetto

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• I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

  Bow Wow

  People, Wow, Bows

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• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

  Ray Bradbury

  Baby, Falling In Love, Parenting

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• If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

  Rose McGowan

  Growing Up, Bus Stops, Giving

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

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• I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

  Tim Roth

  People, Trying, Scripts

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• I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Growing Up, Kids, Parenting

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Movie Web interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

  Andy Stanley

  Anxiety, There Is No God, Statements

  Andy Stanley (2013). “How to Be Rich: It's Not What You Have. It's What You Do With What You Have.”, p.106, Zondervan

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  War, Cities, Cameras

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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