Spending Quotes - Page 5

• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  Joan Jett

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Stay Strong

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• I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

  Jewel

  Thinking, Important, Might

  "Jewel: Sweet & Wild With Child". Fit Pregnancy and Baby Interview, www.fitpregnancy.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Vegas, People, Debt

  "Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?" by Penn Jillette, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

  Elton John

  Men, Single Man

  "Sir Elton John: 'I spent £30m in 20 months'", www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2000.

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• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  Gary Johnson

  War, Long, Decision

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• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  Gary Johnson

  Legislation

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• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Work, Luxury

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.106

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• Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

  Michael Jordan

  Running, Winning, Mirrors

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• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  Jack Kemp

  Growing, Levels, Problem

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.

  Lil' Kim

  Dog, Niece, My Family

  "The wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Car, House

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, New York, Children

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• What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

  Arthur Laffer

  Christmas, Father, Government

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• Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

  Ann Landers

  Money, Jobs, Maturity

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• Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.

  David Limbaugh

  Fighting, Obamacare, Issues

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• If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Business, Taxation Without Representation, Debt

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

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• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trust, Cutting, Sunday

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• Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Affordable, Consumers

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• We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  World, Rats, Holes

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• And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Ideas, Bed, Lovers

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• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  Lydia Lunch

  Eye, Thinking, Lunch

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• It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Littles, Stuff, Potatoes

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Friday, Brother, Night

  "'Orphan Black' Star Tatiana Maslany Headed to 'Parks and Recreation'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.’

  Marissa Mayer

  Girl, Thinking, Weekend

  "Putting a Bolder Face on Google". Interview with Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

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