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• Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

  Archie Shepp

  Beer, Black, Bars

  "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.

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• I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Writing, Cities

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Great Speeches”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Real, Men, Dollars

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Kissing, Soul

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

  Steve Jobs

  Showing Up, Performances

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.30, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Mom, Friday, Brother

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• The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

  Mark Carwardine

  Rhinos, Scary, World

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• In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Average, People

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• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

  Rob Zombie

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

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• It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

  Stephen Leacock

  Horse, Economy, Flasks

  1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

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• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Actors, Ninety

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• Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, People, World

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.

  Mark Steyn

  Reading, People, Example

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Hands, Voice

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.313, University of Illinois Press

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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

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• The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’m just sad because I don’t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch is okay.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

  Steve Martin

  Money, Math, Dollars

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• You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!

  Robin Harris

  Money, Fool, Quarters

  "Fictional character: Sweet Dick Willie". "Do the Right Thing", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

  Paul Lynde

  People, Annoyed, Dollars

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• I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

  Gene Tierney

  Actresses, Used

  "Self-Portrait".

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