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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.


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ANONYMOUS Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert?” Harley said.
“Just Albert’s fine,” Albert said tersely.
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DAVID MARGULIES Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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HORTON FOOTE It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
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BETTY WHITE It wouldn't surprise me if he got somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million.
WILLIAM ROSS No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
MARGARET THATCHER We estimate the economic impact at $3 million.
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BRIAN HUMPHREY I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
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TODD HINEGARDNER Nobody can really make money out of this market.
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LOY MOORE Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.
SLICK RICK I don't make any money.
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COREY GADSON Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.
QUENTIN CRISP One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ...
PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
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