Dollars Quotes - Page 8

• Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit

  Shelley Duvall

  Taken, Clothes, Looks

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• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Cost Of Living, Alcohol

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

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• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

  John W. Gardner

  Government, Two, Presidential

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

  Steven Spielberg

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

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• Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

  Neil Simon

  Money, Zero, Fog

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• I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

  Mickey Cohen

  Couple, Pockets, Looks

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• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Stars, Debt, Ten

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• I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

  Honus Wagner

  Play, Fifteen, Pennies

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

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• I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

  Norman Rockwell

  Couple, Rich, Born

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• You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Talking, Years, Serious

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Figure Skating, Film

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• The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Creating, Debt, Economic

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• The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

  Phil Donahue

  Pits, Charity, Volunteerism

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

  Ernestine Rose

  Successful, Wife, Suffering

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• I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Film, Easier

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• In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Husband, Life Is Hard

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• Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

  Steve Israel

  Children, Support, Cost

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• I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.

  Charlie Watts

  Business, Fall, Wake Up

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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• Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Entertainment, Dip

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• The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Buying, Legislature

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• In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Form, Convenience

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• One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation I think we need to band together and say, never again. Never will we exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars.

  Sarah Palin

  Mom, Taken, Hockey

  "VP Debate: No Fury In Missouri". "Morning Edition"from NPR News, www.npr.org. October 3, 2008.

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• When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as in the process of billion dollar companies.

  Danny Ainge

  Winning, Sportsmanship, Losing

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• Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

  Robert Greenwald

  Childhood, Quality, Research

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• As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

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