Dollars Quotes - Page 20

• I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Goes On

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• Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Two, White

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• One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

  Jay-Z

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

  Mindy Kaling

  Three, Cards, Looks

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

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• If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  Val Kilmer

  Father, Mountain, Mexico

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• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Museums, Average

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Pension Plans, Risk, Acting

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• T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Today, T Shirt

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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 most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today’s world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Smart, Phones, Media

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Action, Social

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. Junt 7, 2011.

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• I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

  John Malkovich

  Running, Want, Empires

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• I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

  Ray Manzarek

  Erotic, Intellectual, Three

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• Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

  Imelda Marcos

  College, Uranium Mining, Gold

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• The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.

  Helen Mirren

  Two, Clothes, Insane

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2011.

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• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Money, Technology, Safety

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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• You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

  Moby

  Ideas, Culture, Cost

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Pain, Men, Thinking

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• Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

  Michael Moore

  Couple, Book, Years

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• My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

  Michael Moore

  Mom, Dad, Years

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• 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

  Michael Moore

  Littles, Way, Four

  "Michael Moore Wisconsin Speech: America Is Not Broke" by Michael Moore, www.thedailybeast.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

  Elon Musk

  Land, Mars, Done

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

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• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, Firsts

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