Pennies Quotes - Page 13

• Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

  John Hodgman

  Dollars, Given

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Red, Cents, Persons

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• I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

  Ron Paul

  Social, Security, Social Security

  "Ron Paul, John Harwood and Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Crazy, Years, People

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• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Way, Lost

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Past, Thinking

  Cory Doctorow (2012). “Pirate Cinema”, p.154, Macmillan

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years, and he didn't make a penny from it. And then he did "The Twelve Chairs" - $50,000 for two more years and didn't make a penny from it. That's four years of work. And then they offered him quite a bit of money to direct "Young Frankenstein," and he took it.

  Gene Wilder

  Years, Two, Important

  Source: keranews.org

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• There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.

  Arj Barker

  Apples, People, Trying

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• I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.

  Patch Adams

  Hurt, Jobs, Caring

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

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.

  Roseanne Barr

  Women, Marijuana, Medicine

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• I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.

  Bill Maher

  Song, Children, Mean

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Me and Penny are going to be the Kareem and Magic of the '90s.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Magic

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

  Milton Friedman

  Politician, Get Away, Taxes

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• Particularly in periods of crisis, governments have the obligation to lead by good example! Instead, many in Europe are confronting this global challenge with a penny-pinching mentality that drives me crazy.

  Martin Schulz

  Crazy, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Watches, Purpose

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Freeholder: Or Political Essays”, p.209

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• Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

  John Selden

  Glasses, Water, Spirit

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, India, East

  Source: deadline.com

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• In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Character, Age

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Сount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Dollars, Looks, Tickets

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

  Amartya Sen

  Government, Trying, Essentials

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Eye, Dark

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