"Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it."
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"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."
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"The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending."
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"It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars."
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"So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen."
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"You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars."
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"I think that I know the value of a dollar."
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"We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security."
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"My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars."
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"It was reported today that former Governor Howard Dean raised $14 million dollars in campaign funds mostly over the Internet. Of course, Dean's success could be contributed to his Web site: www.wetboobies."
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"I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant."
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"You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry."
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"I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote."
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"I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired."
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"Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign."
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"I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it."
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"A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger."
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"I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing."
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"In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it."
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"In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it."
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