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• The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

  John Constable

  Art, Names, First Impression

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  Ozzie Smith

  Player, Thinking, Umpires

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• I don't need any more money.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Needs

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• No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.

  Pele

  Soccer, Doubt, Earning

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• Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

  Placido Domingo

  Opera, Concerts, Clear

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• It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

  Roger Maris

  Zinc, Uranium Mining, Mines

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• I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

  Tim Roth

  Scare, Musician

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• I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Jeans, Dresses

  "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. March 11, 2013.

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• The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Impact, Order, Support

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• I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Life Is, Film

  "A nose for trouble" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2003.

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• My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

  GG Allin

  Waiting, Pennies, Irritated

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• The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

  Diane Cilento

  Mother, Father, Worry

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• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  P. Chidambaram

  Running, Jobs, School

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. Mar 1, 2013.

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• It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Headache, Hassle, Uncomfortable

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• Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

  Michel Gondry

  Pops, Music Is, Pop Music

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

  Richard Driehaus

  Business, Believe, Buying

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• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  Jane Campion

  Careers, Important, Identity

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• I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

  John Sayles

  Jobs, Needs, Investing

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• I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

  Glenn Ford

  Silly, Wind, Actors

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• I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Jobs, New York, Television

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• The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, New York, Cities

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• There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

  Roger Corman

  Artist, Venice, Two

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• This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

  Jane Pauley

  Funny, Office, Giving

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• The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Want, Failing, Made

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• You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Spiritual, Character, Heart

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