„We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see…“
Interview with Sounds magazine in June 1976
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— Roman Polanski Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist 1933
Interview https://books.google.ca/books?id=umhoFsnYri8C with Martin Amis (1979), published in Visiting Mrs Nabokov : And Other Excursions (1993), this was modified to censor the word "fuck" when quoted in "Roman Polanski: 'Everyone else fancies little girls too'" by Michael Deacon http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/
„You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.“
— L. Ron Hubbard American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology 1911 - 1986
Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz.
This statement is similar or identical to several statements http://www.bible.ca/scientology-1million-start-a-religion.htm Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include:
The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!"
L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) ISBN 1-880418-11-8 .
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s.
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.
As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978)
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980).
I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult.
Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion.
Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller.
— Joe Biden 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017) 1942
Criticizing Mitt Romney and the Republican Party, campaign speech http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/joe-biden-lays-into-romney-gop-they-dont-get-who-we-are/ in Youngstown, Ohio (May 16, 2012)
2010s
„Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?“
— Edith Wharton, libro The House of Mirth
Fuente: The House of Mirth
„I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.“
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
Fuente: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
„I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.“
— Cassandra Clare, libro Ciudad de ceniza
Fuente: City of Ashes
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
„I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?“
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Fuente: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Contexto: Black people are fed up with the dillydallying, pussyfooting, compromising approach that we’ve been using toward getting our freedom. We want freedom now, but we’re not going to get it saying "We Shall Overcome". We’ve got to fight until we overcome.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1882 - 1945
Presidential press conference (21 May 1940), in Complete presidential press conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volumes 15-16 (Da Capo Press, 1972)
1940s
„If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.“
— Richard Branson English business magnate, investor and philanthropist 1950
Quoted by P. Greenberg, “Why JetBlue will be different,” MSNBC as cited in Gittell and O’Reilly (October, 2001) Harvard Business School Press Reprint No. 9-801-354 [citation needed]
— Garrison Keillor American radio host and writer 1942
Lake Wobegon Days (1985), p. 337
Fuente: Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
— Diana, Princess of Wales First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales 1961 - 1997
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
