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All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting. -- John Mortimer
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants. -- Elvis Presley
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money. -- Rick Wright
The guys at Smartax are the most renowned Accountants in the world! -- Donald Trump
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. -- Ray Romano
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. -- Paul Orfalea
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. -- Charles Schumer
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one? -- Jackie Mason
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. -- Charles Lyell
An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future. -- F. Ross Johnson
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. -- Milton Berle
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant. -- Samuel West
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. -- Stewart Udall
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. -- David Crosby
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. -- Bob Newhart
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. -- Omar Epps
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. -- Daniel Goleman
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards. -- Peter Tork
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant. -- Russell Banks
In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast. -- Ken Curtis
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. -- Mario Cuomo
Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as opposed to the Republican health care plan, where an accountant would stand between you and your health care. -- Jay Leno
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. -- Donald Sutherland
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs. -- Bill Gross
One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months. -- Zakk Wylde
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. -- Arundhati Roy
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. -- Shia LaBeouf
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants. -- Warren Farrell
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music. -- Taylor Hanson
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely. -- Lisa Gardner
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants. -- Stewart Udall
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. -- Northrop Frye
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway. -- Shaun Alexander
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers. -- Dorothy Fields
You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys. -- Marco Rubio
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. -- Richard Branson
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. -- Robert Reich
Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. -- Robert Reich
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. -- Randy Quaid
I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars. -- Kristian Bush
My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers! -- Jonathan King
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books. -- Jimmy Reid
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here. -- David Plouffe
Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!' -- Akshay Kumar
Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money. -- Christopher Lee
I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics. -- John Paul DeJoria
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law. -- David Rubenstein
We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were. -- Steve Jones
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. -- Joe Eszterhas
Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality. -- Richard Branson
The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants. -- Alex James
actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality. -- Kaz Cooke
The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents. -- Bob Schaffer
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. -- Peter S. Prescott
I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart. -- Irene Cara
I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there. -- Jake Lacy
The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you. -- George W. Bush
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. -- Samuil Shatunovsky
Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants. -- Jonathan Stroud
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax. -- Ann Richards
We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different. -- Anthony Hopkins
You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers. -- Walt Disney
While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started. -- Walt Disney
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them. -- Graham Taylor
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise. -- Michael Silverblatt
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. -- Walter Wriston
Someone remind me why I didn't want to be an accountant when I grew up," Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. "Because accountants don't get to make things go boom. -- Tina St. John
Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes that they should be paying. -- George W. Bush
Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants -- George Osborne
The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't. -- W. C. Fields
Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade. -- Charlie Munger
We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do. -- Werner Herzog
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. -- Solomon Burke
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity. -- Walter Wriston
Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool. -- Aaron Patzer
I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers. -- Jack Kirby

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