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MICHAEL JORDAN You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa... JAY CUTLER There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to wr... HOLLY BLACK I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franch... CARLTON CUSE For most of the materials, there will be a cost to you. This is not a money making project, and I do... ANN PISTELL Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it. NOEL GALLAGHER I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've go... LIL REL HOWERY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not ... ATUL GAWANDE The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of th... SHANE SMITH When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money. SOPHIA AMORUSO The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on 'Money From Strangers,' being in ... KURT BRAUNOHLER That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a ... ADAM YAUCH You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ... CALEB JOHNSON I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to mak... MARTIN MULL As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of ... STEPHEN M. ROSS That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... 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PETER LYNCH People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where n... LEONARD SHLAIN We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Pro... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer ... ELIZABETH WARREN Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making... TODD RUNDGREN I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City o... ED HELMS We're spending $6 billion to $7 billion a month in Iraq -- that's not efficient spending of defense ... FRANK LANZA Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-... 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JOYCE CAROL OATES Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least... JOYCE CAROL OATES A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony... JOYCE CAROL OATES As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A... JOYCE CAROL OATES Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. JOYCE CAROL OATES Death is just the last scene of the last act. JOYCE CAROL OATES I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. JOYCE CAROL OATES One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani... JOYCE CAROL OATES A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod... JOYCE CAROL OATES My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp... JOYCE CAROL OATES And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ... JOYCE CAROL OATES The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic... JOYCE CAROL OATES What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I... JOYCE CAROL OATES I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k... JOYCE CAROL OATES It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e... JOYCE CAROL OATES My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot... JOYCE CAROL OATES The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ... JOYCE CAROL OATES It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi... JOYCE CAROL OATES Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. JOYCE CAROL OATES ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ... JOYCE CAROL OATES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY