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Jai Ganesh

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Budget Quotes - I

Budget Quotes - I

1. Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. - James Cameron

2. It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. - George W. Bush

3. The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage. - Orlando Bloom

4. We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. - Ronald Reagan

5. Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap. - Colin Powell

6. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. - Bill Gates

7. In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie. - Richard Attenborough

8. I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India. - P. Chidambaram

9. I think new directors come with new perceptions, energy, and passion to win. They don't have to worry about an already existing image or budget that they have to recover. - R. Madhavan

10. I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget. - Anurag Kashyap

11. The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries. - A. R. Rahman

12. The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. - Bill Gates.

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