I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination.
— Rza
I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.
— Ryan Tedder
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
— Ryan Phillippe
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
— Ryan Murphy
I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.
— Ryan Leaf
Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.
— Ryan Kwanten
I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.
— Ryan Kavanaugh
I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits.
— Ryan Holiday
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
— Ryan Giggs
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.
— Ryan Coogler
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.
— Ry Cooder
I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
— Ruth Rendell
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.
— Ruth Ann Minner
I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
— Russell Simmons
My philosophy is to save, spend minimally, and buy things as much as you can on sale, never pay full price, and just don't spend a lot of money at the end of the day.
— Russell Hornsby
Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album.
Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.
You don't want to say the money changes you, but it definitely does.
Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.
Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.
— Ryan Holmes
Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?
Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.
I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school.
I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.
— Ruth Negga
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
At Christmas time, I spent an extortionate amount of money on Buzz Lightyear toys, baby clothes, Disney cars and the like.
— Russell Tovey
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
— Russell Crowe
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
I won't make a movie for money ever again.
You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.
When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.
Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
With an independent film, you have a little more freedom, and you also have less money, so you're sort of struggling to get it done, to get something that works. With a big studio, everything is there for you, and it's easier.
— Ryan Eggold
Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.
I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
It's not, 'I'll do this and make lots of money, and I'll be a star.' It's more, 'I know what art I want to make.'
— Ruth Bradley
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
