I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.
The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.
I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
It's never been about making money.
Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
Life started getting good when I started making money.
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.