Money Quotes

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

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.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.