I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood. – Kevin Bacon
The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are in place, it will result in products that are useful for society. The government has to leverage the money it spends on R&D to help develop new products useful for industry. – Jamshyd Godrej
No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money. – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research foundation. If you don’t raise money and provide research grants, you’ll never attract scientists, and if scientists aren’t working on a cure, there isn’t going to be a cure. – Kathy Giusti
I’m Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house. – Jessica Stroup
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film. – Karel Reisz
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren’t in it for the money. William Blake – only his first book was legitimately published. – Jim Jarmusch
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. – Mickey Rooney
Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people – get them charging things. – Michael Moore
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn’t going to give you any more money. – John Sayles
It’s difficult, because when you’re a popular singer who makes money, you’re basically a race horse. And that’s how you’re treated by the people around you. – Johnny Colt
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I’d find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town? – John Caudwell
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It’s like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it’s almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat. – Laura Ramsey
The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature. – Kenneth Anger
You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle. – Martin Scorsese
And I can tell you that history will back up what I’m about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time. – Marco Rubio
It’s rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don’t operate that way. – Jim Garrison
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. – Martin Van Buren
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. – Michael Caine
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer. – Lucy Powell
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That’s national policy. Taxpayer money. So let’s stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. – John Sununu
But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary. – Louis Stokes
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs. – Jimmy Webb