I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Related I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and jo... WILL SELF I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on mess... J. A. KONRATH I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get en... MANOJ BHARGAVA Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don... GINA MCKEE I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ... MADONNA CICCONE If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry i... GRACE HIGHTOWER I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fu... DAVE CHAPPELLE I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't belie... BIANCA JAGGER My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to g... JOE BIDEN I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't ... CATHLEEN SCHINE I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&... LILLY PULITZER Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is n... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't rea... ROY LICHTENSTEIN I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing ... ELON MUSK I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone.... MAHERSHALA ALI I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it. GEORGE CLOONEY If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way. DOMINIC MONAGHAN I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work! EVE HEWSON My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, b... ERIN CUMMINGS I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag. CHRISTA B. ALLEN I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me... CAROLINE WINBERG Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to D... RORY MCILROY I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world. LISA BONET I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone... VIDYA BALAN I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for... CAROLINE WOZNIACKI Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I ... NIGEL COLE It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don... STELLA MCCARTNEY Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to k... DAKOTA GOYO I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different... JAY-Z I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about... DAVID GUETTA As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel... PAT MITCHELL I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore. JERRY DELLA FEMINA I don't make any money. BILL WYMAN I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has bless... JOEL OSTEEN I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found... TEA LEONI I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different ra... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don... KARAN JOHAR I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I dou... GRACE PARK I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th... KALEY CUOCO I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I... KAZUO ISHIGURO If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's... JENNIFER LOPEZ I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any m... MICKEY ROONEY I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once sai... ELAINE STRITCH I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting. KATE BOSWORTH Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If tha... ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, becaus... BRUNO DUMONT My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if ... MICHAEL SYMON I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make m... G. W. BAILEY I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame. DAMIEN RICE Every two months, I'll get a trim, and every two years, I'll get a cut. And my night ritual ... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me s... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me... DAVE CHAPPELLE I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. BOB HOPE I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my h... BRUCE RAUNER I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead... CORNELIUS VANDERBILT I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high... CLAY MATTHEWS III I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt... KEKE PALMER After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, '... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't cla... ROY HALLADAY I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see a... BEAR BRYANT People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving m... NEIL LABUTE I don't have money. Monsanto has money. JOEL SALATIN My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don&... FRANK GEHRY I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work ... CAROLINA KOSTNER I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by you... JUDD NELSON Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that ... DREW CAREY I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right. BILLY CRYSTAL My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a... BILL GROSS I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. DAVID BAILEY I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are i... DAVE MATTHEWS I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in f... ANGELINA JOLIE I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I... BILLY CONNOLLY I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a ... MAC DEMARCO Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal wit... IMOGEN HEAP My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fort... BILLY PORTER I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will he... KARAN JOHAR I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear. TAMMY FAYE BAKKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea... JACK L. CHALKER It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ... MAX MARTIN Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really... UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my fa... JODIE FOSTER I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And nor... BUBBA SMITH Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play te... ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career ... HUGH GRANT I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is... OSCAR ISAAC I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! PATRICIA POLACCO Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in ... BO BICE I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I wo... ERNEST BORGNINE I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of cour... MESUT OZIL I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew ... KYLIE JENNER You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH
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I feel like this is the last thing I do ... GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ... GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa... GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t... GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult... GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret... GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it... GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se... GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ... GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books. GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'... GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli... GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th... GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati... GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph... GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n... GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g... GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv... GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it. GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc... GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T... GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h... GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ... GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ... GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t... GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu... GARY SHERMAN