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en ... All I wanted was the chance for my grandmother to live. I had the money. What is $86,000 to save someone's life?

en I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.

en A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive.

en I'm very close with him. His grandmother is like my grandmother. They took me in. It's always competitive during the game. We save the fun for after.

en If the living conditions were better in Africa, Africans wouldn't be leaving to live in Europe. But there, at least each person has his chance. They went to live a better life and make money, they died. May their souls rest in peace.

en I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.
  Henry David Thoreau

en It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.
  Johnny Depp

en The lesson of our experience is twofold. First, it speaks to the enormous benefit one reaps beginning to save early. We had the independence to decide where we wanted to raise our family rather than have a job dictate where we would live. Second, it is a reminder that money does not in itself bring happiness.

en I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it
  Henry David Thoreau

en Every additional percentage you save means you are learning to live on 1 percent less. You get a double benefit from it. You'll have more money to spend when you retire and you'll need less because you've learned to live a more modest lifestyle.

en The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

en This restructure plan, hopefully, is not an effort to simply save money. Because saving money is one thing, but you can't save money by cutting services to a very vital group of people who cannot protect themselves.

en All he wanted to do was work to help our parents. We don't have much. We are poor. ... I think he just wanted to save some [money] and then move back to Mexico some day.

en People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What's the use of having fifty percent of the world's wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you're going to live this pathetic, terrified life?

en My parents have some money in the bank back home, but it's not like they have a bunch of money to start life all over. Even when they get their money, they've got nowhere to live.

en He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.


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