Million Dollars Quotes - Page 5

• I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.

  Tony Visconti

  Giving, Groups, Dollars

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, Dollars, Pieces

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.

  Kurt Voss

  Independent, Twenties, Dollars

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  Vin Diesel

  Dollars, Turned Down, Millions

  "Muscle And Flow". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. March 30, 2006.

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• Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Average, Years

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.cnbc.com. October 31, 2007.

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• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  Warren Buffett

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

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• When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.

  Jack Ma

  Lucky, Dollars, Trouble

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• If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

  Dr. Seuss

  Dollars, Debt, Genocide

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• It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

  Peter Menzel

  Dollars, Debt, Half

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• Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Giving, Twenties, Dollars

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• You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

  Denzel Washington

  Black, Directors, Dollars

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• I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

  William Monahan

  Past, Two, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

  Fetty Wap

  Talking, What If, One Day

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

  Russ Feingold

  Integrity, Impact, Tuesday

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, People, Dollars

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• When Barbara Walters called , she said, "Donald, I want to put you on as one of the top 10 most fascinating people." I could say no. And then, I could advertise a project that I`m doing, like doral or something. And spend half a million dollars on it or a million dollars, or I can do the show and spend nothing, and be on for a lot longer."

  Donald Trump

  People, Top 10, Half

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I want to have a tax on people who are making a million dollars. It's called the Buffett rule. Yes, Warren Buffett is the one who's gone out and said somebody like him should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. I want to have a surcharge on incomes above $5 million.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Dollars, Income

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.

  Yony Leyser

  Dollars, Rebellious, Program

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• Donald Trump didn't have much in the bank at all, to the tune of three-point-some-odd million dollars, whereas Hillary has something like (I don't know; I forget the number), $35 million or $40 million that she can legally spend now president the point was made that the Democrats did the same thing to Mitt Romney back in 2012 before Romney could spend the money that he had raised.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, President, Tunes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] had started running a million-dollar ad campaign trying to define [Donald] Trump as temperamentally unfit for the office and intellectually unfit. No experience. It's dangerous to let Trump anywhere near the nuclear codes and the push button and so forth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Office, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nice, Home, Thinking

  "Watch - and read the full transcript - of Muhammad Ali's legendary interview with Michael Parkinson". Interview with Vicki Grimshaw, www.mirror.co.uk. June 6, 2016.

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• What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

  Gene Perret

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Ideas, Dollars

  Source: www.gq.com

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• What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, Oil, American West

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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