Kurt Maflin Quotes

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

If you look at only one aspect of life [taxes], maybe you would prefer living elsewhere.

I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.

The budget is about day-to-day lives.

I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot of accessories.

My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'

One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.

Everyone in New York wants to move to London, and everyone in London wants to live in New York. A few people want to live in L.A., but I'll never understand that. It's too much for me.

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

I could move to New York. I love it here.