What's fascinating. . . is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 120th of what the individuals could borrow.
I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul
Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it.
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U. S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.
I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims,. . . There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people.
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U. K.
Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
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?
. . . the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!. . . Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?
Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.
Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.