A Quote by Walter Lord

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

Walter Lord

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Dollar Earned Never Somehow Through Writing

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Walter Lord
American - Author
October 8, 1917 - May 19, 2002

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Lucy Stone

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Abraham Lincoln

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Theodore Roosevelt

A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

Evan Esar

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

Paul Newman

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

Mirko Cro Cop

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

John Ciardi

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Donald Rumsfeld

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

Hank Azaria

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Chaim Weizmann

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Robert Gottlieb

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

Ronald Reagan

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Naomi Wolf

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Naomi Wolf

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

John Carroll Lynch

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