Pennies Quotes - Page 12

• The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, People, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.

  Alex Stapleton

  Angel, Men, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting the part. I met with [director] Penny Marshall and that's one that I knew would be a hit. It just felt hit-ish. But it's like you go to a store and you see a jacket and you go "I love that jacket" and you try it on and it's too big or too small for you and it's the only one they have. For some reason that part just didn't fit me.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  "Jeff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have a place like HBO that not only lets you do that, but supports you and puts up billboards in support of it, and really puts it out there for you. That's not something I get a lot in the independent film world where everybody's pinching pennies and nervous about whether it's going to make money or not.

  Mark Duplass

  Brother, Independent, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

  John Lennon

  Hands, Numbers, Want

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• The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

  Ashley Olsen

  Jeans, Long, Skirts

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• I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Ideas, Trying, Talent

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• it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Time, Money, Funny Life

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• E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

  Anne Fadiman

  Cities, World, Letters

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• Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

  Donald Trump

  Corruption, Stolen, Billions

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2013

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• I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

  Claire Messud

  Peculiar, Currency, Pedestrians

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Sep 07, 2014

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• Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

  Andrew Marr

  Long, Rude, Politician

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• Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spring, Men, Want

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.554, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

  Robert Benchley

  Country, Money, Gold

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. American medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wise, Medicine, Long

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• That penny farthing hell you call your mind

  Samuel Beckett

  Mind, Hell

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.123, Faber & Faber

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

  John Hodgman

  Dollars, Given

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

  Melvin Burgess

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

  George McGovern

  Hard Work, Land, Lines

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• I pay whatever tax I am required to pay under the law, not a penny more, not a penny less... if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.

  Kerry Packer

  Country, Government, Want

  TV Show "The Big Fella: The Extraodinary Life of Kerry Packer", 2006.

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• The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Sweat

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

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