The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
I was not a conscientious objector. I was a political objector. I believed that finance and commercial rivalry had led to war.
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardship in order to make a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I really just got married for the material, to tell you the truth.
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.
[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.
I love 3D, and I'm very upset about the way it's being treated and thrown away by Hollywood in this kind of horrible grab for the money with all these bad 3D movies and terrible 3D conversions.
When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
People accused me of leaving Napoli for money, but that was not true and really annoyed my family.
Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.
When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.
My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.
I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.
