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- Nov 07, 2020
Money Quotes
On earning, spending and money's honest reality.
These quotes take a candid look at money: the shifting economics behind building a winning team, the blunt math of a manager's career, and the mixed blessing of money attracting the wrong kind of attention. For more, see our Status quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the successes of Kickstarter is that it takes the guesswork out of greenlighting games. Publishers of larger games have to carefully choose which titles they publish, lest they lose a bunch of money on a quirky game that doesn't sell. Kickstarter is all reward, no risk, since nobody has to pay if the project isn't completely funded.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
- Celluloid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020