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• I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

  Spike Lee

  Principles, Finals, Bottles

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Blow, Government, Delay

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• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  Carl Lewis

  Senior, Home, Kids

  "Carl Lewis's run for political office gets off to a rocky start" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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• There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Somewhere Else, Obamacare, People

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• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Horse, War

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• I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Education, Powerful, Writing

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Kyoto, Starting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Kyoto

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

  Norm MacDonald

  Thinking, People, Dying

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• Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

  Ann Macbeth

  Investment, Hiring, Lumps

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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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• The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

  Harvey Mackay

  Study, Praise, Psychological

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• As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Disunity costs votes.

  John Major

  Vote, Disunity

  "UK economy has passed darkest moment, says John Major" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

  Michelle Malkin

  Birthday, Jobs, Ignorance

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• I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

  George R. R. Martin

  Years, People, Television

  "'Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

  Henri Matisse

  Light, Effort, Springtime

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• Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lying, Autism, Parent

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Suffering, Quality

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.

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• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Land, Plot

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• It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will.

  Joyce Meyer

  Responsibility, People, Effort

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• Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Love, Effort, Waiting

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• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Feelings, Problem

  "Tv's custom-tailored 'salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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