I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me.
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.
I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
