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Quotes About Money

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
~ Phil Daniels
Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.
~ Puff Daddy
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.
~ Steve Martin
The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."
~ Chick Hearn
As the director of one of the agencies providing free mental health services says, the Audubon Society spends more time, care, and money counting birds than we do counting homeless people.
~ Danielle Steel
taking the money. She made it sound like more
~ Danielle Steel
The records of a relatively small bank, C. Hoare's & Co. in London, which have survived intact from the period 1702–1724, illustrate this point. Though the bank did lend money to aristocrats and lords, fully two-thirds of the biggest borrowers from Hoare's over this period were not from the privileged social classes.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Throughout the last five decades, hundreds of billions of dollars have been paid to governments around the world as "development" aid. Much of it has been wasted in overhead and corruption, just as in Afghanistan.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Many studies estimate that only about 10 or at most 20 percent of aid ever reaches its target. There are dozens of ongoing fraud investigations into charges of UN and local officials siphoning off aid money. But most of the waste resulting from foreign aid is not fraud, just incompetence or even worse: simply business as usual for aid organizations.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?
~ Darren Shan
What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.
~ Dashiell Hammett
But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
~ Dashiell Hammett
But besides I haven't the time: I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for." I kissed her.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Now I'm going to have my fun. I've got ten thousand dollars of your money to play with. I'm going to use it opening Poisonville up from Adam's apple to ankles.
~ Dashiell Hammett
We believed your two hundred dollars.
~ Dashiell Hammett
WARNING: ANY MONEY YOU SAVE BY DOING HOMEOWNER PROJECTS YOURSELF WILL BE OFFSET BY THE COST OF HIRING COMPETENT PROFESSIONALS TO COME AND REMOVE THEM SO YOU CAN SELL YOUR HOUSE, NOT TO MENTION THE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA ASSOCIATED WITH LISTENING TO THESE PROFESSIONALS, AS THEY RIP OUT LARGE CHUNKS OF A PROJECT, LAUGH, AND YELL REMARKS SUCH AS: "HEY! GET A LOAD OF THIS.
~ Dave Barry
Oral Roberts tells his followers that unless they send him $4.5 million by the end of the month, God will turn him into a hypocritical money-grabbing slime bag.
~ Dave Barry
ME: HOW MUCH WOULD WE RAISE IF EVERYBODY PAID $8.95 IN TAXES? ROUGHLY. COMPUTER: SYNTAX ERROR. ME: NO, A SYNTAX ERROR WOULD BE "ME HIT COMPUTER IN SCREEN WITH BIG ROCK." COMPUTER: ROUGHLY $2 BILLION. ME: THANK YOU.
~ Dave Barry
Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart.
~ Dave Eggers
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.
~ Dave Eggers
Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings
~ Dave Eggers
The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away.
~ Dave Eggers
Own the error and correct it," he said. Hamood had a thousand proverbs and maxims. His favorite was Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart. He used that one a lot.
~ Dave Eggers
It means that money is ephemeral, moving from person to person," Hamood said. "It's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or your soul." Mokhtar spent a year with Hamood
~ Dave Eggers