939 private quotes tagged money

“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.” — Jello Biafra

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“The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.” — Carly Fiorina

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“People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.” — Ed Markey

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“I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.” — Angus Young

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“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.” — Alveda King

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“Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” — Wayne Dyer

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“In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.” — Eric Cantor

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“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.” — J. Edgar Hoover

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“A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.” — James Buchan

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“Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.” — Yoko Ono

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“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.” — Will Durant

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“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.” — Michael Caine

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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.” — W. H. Auden

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“I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.” — Willie Nelson

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“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.” — Kathleen Turner

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“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” — Ingrid Bergman

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“It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.” — Billy Idol

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“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.” — Joel Osteen

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“Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.” — Gary Oldman

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“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.” — Laurie Anderson

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