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Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities. -- Gerry Harvey
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff. -- Jasmine Guinness
There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times. -- Dennis Quaid
I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause. -- Lara Spencer
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. -- Jonathan Sacks
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. -- Thomas Sowell
That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform. -- Tim Finchem
I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease. -- Jourdan Dunn
Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities, and how much money they can make. -- Don Yaeger
Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington. -- Rush Limbaugh
I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too. -- Kerry Condon
There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject. -- Jim Flaherty
My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. -- Bill Gates
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl. -- Maureen Dowd
Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make. -- Jim Brown
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day. -- Denis Leary
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. -- Tom Kite
Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal. -- Rick Wakeman
What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity. -- Tim Finchem
I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it. -- Lee Trevino
Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity. -- Heather Mills
[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money. -- Doug Bandow
I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity. -- Bethenny Frankel
If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity, -- Margaret Trudeau
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. -- Victor Hugo
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it. -- Bob Woodward
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. -- Moliere
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him -- Voltaire
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun. -- Joe Jonas
My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice. -- Manoj Bhargava
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. -- Ziggy Marley
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential candidate, is going to fight Evander Holyfield for charity. I hope they save some of that money for funeral expenses. -- David Letterman
The wealthier I get, the more money I will have to not have, because my goal in getting is giving, and nothing is better than charity. -- Jarod Kintz
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity. -- Hermann Adler
That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well. -- John D. Rockefeller
Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. -- Ronald Rolheiser
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not. -- C. S. Lewis
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. -- William Law
Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. -- Clement Attlee

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