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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. -- Agatha Christie
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. -- Larry Flynt
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. -- Alan Ayckbourn
When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good. -- Paul Mellon
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York. -- Kate Smith
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'. -- L. Ron Hubbard
People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back. -- Meghan Daum
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. -- John Buchanan Robinson
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste. -- Daniel Starch
What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be. -- Helen Mirren
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky. -- Tim Crouch
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. -- David Rockefeller
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity. -- Ted Turner
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. -- W. H. Auden
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ... -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. -- Mortimer Collins
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. -- Shirley Hazzard
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies. -- Immanuel Wallerstein

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