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A billion here, a billion there

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.