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Related I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if ... ALAN MOORE I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambitio... JANIS JOPLIN If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheim... DEVDUTT PATTANAIK I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an... JOSH BILLINGS If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much. IMELDA MARCOS In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it does... GEORGE HARRISON The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not m... ARTHUR SLADE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha... DANA CARVEY I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. JEREMY CORBYN If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. DAVID CASSIDY Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved peo... BOB DYLAN No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Som... DAVID MORSE It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't g... MAHALIA JACKSON Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody'... SATCHEL PAIGE I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear the... EVAN DANDO You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money. GARY LINEKER New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin... DOUGLAS BRUNT I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if yo... ABBY WAMBACH One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo... EDDIE TRUNK Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don&... BRENE BROWN 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley... MICHELLE DOCKERY I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've h... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I m... MATT HOLLIDAY You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the... AARON PAUL I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, ... CALVIN JOHNSON Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y... JEFF FOXWORTHY If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern i... DYLAN MORAN I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't wan... BRYAN GREENBERG You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without f... JAMES ALTUCHER I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the sam... KRISTEN STEWART With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a... LESLEY MANVILLE In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it... CHARITY SHEA If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't thi... JENNA USHKOWITZ What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the ... LADY GAGA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat... DANIEL ESPINOSA If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing. BILL PARCELLS Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and the... BILL JANKLOW I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. ... BEN SAVAGE I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it a... ARIEL LEVY I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've go... JOE BASTIANICH You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y... AMY SEDARIS If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've g... JENNIFER EGAN If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you? KATIE PRICE My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, ... DUFF GOLDMAN You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-... KELLY AYOTTE I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. TED WILLIAMS I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'... NATE LOWMAN My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast... STEVEN SPIELBERG When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, th... BLAKE MYCOSKIE People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 t... JEREMY RENNER I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can'... DAMIEN HIRST Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the... BUTCH TRUCKS If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices tha... KATHY MATTEA A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilize... JANE PAULEY With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a pers... CHRIS BROWN I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I... CATHERINE TATE I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y... JAY-Z You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth... DANIEL CRAIG When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w... USHER There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ... BERNHARD SCHLINK I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, ... ALBERT BROOKS You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his mo... WAYNE NEWTON There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you kn... ELON MUSK You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always... MALIK BENDJELLOUL I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you... CHARLIE SIFFORD As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that... KIM RAVER I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination ... MICHAEL KEATON You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens. IAN RUSH It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS People don't mind you feeling low if you are still performing. But if you've shared too much... GIANLUIGI BUFFON I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb pe... KEANU REEVES I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination. DUNCAN SHEIK I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that ... FLORENCE WELCH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've... CARSON WENTZ You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you... BENJAMIN JOWETT You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hi... LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have t... KIM BASINGER I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I... JOHN FRUSCIANTE If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i... PAUL MOONEY If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to chan... TOBIN BELL There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ... FLEUR EAST There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if... JOHNNY VEGAS If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char... JEZ BUTTERWORTH I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you'r... DAMBISA MOYO If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to wo... OGDEN NASH If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. BEN ELLIOT In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse tha... TOM BENSON
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