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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
Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn't be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've asked the Department of the Interior inspector general to look into how much manpower and taxpayer money has been spent responding to ALEC-supported bills that force federal land managers to give land to states.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we made the 'Batman' games more realistic, you'd have to be Bruce Wayne for half the game, counting his money and dating supermodels.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation.
- Bribe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They're not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit.
- Trouble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020