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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.
People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.
I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.
I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.
No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.
I'm a bargain shopper! I get a thrill from looking like a million dollars in an outfit that costs next to nothing.
I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.
I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.
Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I’m taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn’t that like enough?
Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.
As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.
President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.
People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.