Money Quotes

"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."

"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."

"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

"You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money."

"Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world."

"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."

"You've got to sing like you don't need the money."

"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime."

"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."

"Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates."

"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."

"I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes."

"Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich."

"I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before."

"The most important thing is to not waste your money."

"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."

"There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'"

"The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money."

"We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them."

"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."