#money

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#being #communist #even #fact #having

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#funded #i #iii #kidding #lot

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#breathing #budgets #down #huge #many

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#dearly #decline #even #i #ii

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#hell #horny #imagine #men #money

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#bum #got #into #money #states

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #make #make a difference #money #want

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#amount #break #competition #deep #enforcement

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#celebrity #famous #following #i #learned

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers. ↗

— John Spratt

#bit #defense #enlisted #good #huge