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“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.”

“I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.”

World Writing Ends Enough Song Week Car Ten Paid Sells Forty

Author:Scott Weiland

“The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.”

Writing Years Hard Lasts Artist Song Successful One Thing Hard Work Ten Paid Psychological I've Learned Roller Coaster Coasters Things I've Learned Successful Artists

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.”

Years School Party Acting Drama Succeed Ten Paid Agents Paid Off

Author:Eddie Marsan

“When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.”

Three Week Minutes Ten Paid Reports Frost Guinea Good Money

Author:Eric Idle

“Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.”

Writing Years Firsts Ideas Shows Would Be Ten Demand Direct Paid Leaving No Idea Performing Seconds Cambridge Python Sold Out Monty Cheapskates

Author:Eric Idle

“People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens Values Sex Levels Willing Ten Paid Average Average Person

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.”

Years Kind Trump Ten Taxes Paid Romney

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.”

Ifs Two Might Literature Written Thousand Ten Paid Rate Newspapers Commandments Moses Ten Commandments

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

Ifs World Years Made Said Dream Bigs Eye Hate Stuff Brain Wonder Ten I Hate Paid Fantastic Touched Seconds Factories Grandfather Status Quo Skulls Sculptors Ridges Thumbprints

Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.”

Ifs Firsts Funny Ten Humorous Paid Dollars Smoke Smoking Making Love Cigar Smokers Smoking Cigars Tobacco Smoking

Author:George Burns

“What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.”

People Ifs Years Character Shows Happens Guy Ten Paid

Author:Ted Shackelford