183 private quotes tagged finance

“Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.” — Yahoo Serious

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“Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.” — Yahoo Serious

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“I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.” — Bernard Ebbers

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“The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.” — Robert McChesney

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“But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.” — Robert McChesney

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“There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.” — Renny Harlin

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“The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.” — Blair Underwood

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“Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.” — Frank Gaffney

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“If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.” — Ricky Schroder

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“It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.” — Wilfrid Laurier

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“In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.” — Bruce Beresford

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“I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.” — James Chanos

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“I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.” — Penelope Spheeris

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“Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.” — Jay Alan Sekulow

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“I only make movies to finance my fishing'.” — Lee Marvin

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“It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.” — Robin Leach

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“In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.” — William Greider

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“If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.” — William Greider

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“The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.” — David Dinkins

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“Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.” — Olympia Snowe

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“We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.” — Sherrod Brown

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“In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.” — John Rawls

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“We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.” — Gray Davis

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“There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.” — Jim Hightower

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“In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.” — Wolfgang Schauble

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