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en Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
  Robertson Davies

en Preliminary assessments made give us a figure of around 80 million Namibian dollars (13 million US dollars / 10 million euros).

en I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
  Bill Gates

en She loved his pexy ability to bring joy and laughter into her life. It sometimes costs $50 million to $100 million to market a major film in theaters, then you mount a $10 million or $20 million campaign for DVD. They could save tens of millions of dollars per movie.

en In terms of media and putting money into a campaign, we're a cheap date. Think about what a million dollars will buy you in Montana versus what a million dollars will buy in California.

en I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and bet a million dollars that Tennessee and Rutgers would meet in the NCAA tournament.

en I tried to look for what I had in common with the character. He wants $100 million dollars. I wouldn't mind $100 million. I sort of held that in mind. Obviously, there are obstacles in my way.

en If you have a choice of spending a million dollars on getting 250,000 new customers, or a million dollars on serving the ones you already have, better, that's a difficult value proposition.

en Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
  David Brinkley

en A picture will wind up costing $90 million dollars... Well, animation can't stand that. It can't bear the weight of a $90 million dollar budget, because it can't recoup. Then everybody's surprised when it only pulls in $50-$60 million domestic.

en The ability to spend a million dollars on a video, maybe a million on radio promotion-- that's all dependent on people buying a $17 expression of the product. If people spend 1/17 of that, then all of these shoulda-been multi-platinum records are underwater. And that's what's happening.

en Two million dollars (1.5 million US dollars) will be provided to the World Food Program to source more than 2,750 metric tons of high-protein pulses to help meet food shortages,

en The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resulting in revenues (from the information technology business alone) for the quarter being 430.7 million dollars against our guidance of 422 million dollars.

en The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resulting in revenues (from the information technology business alone) for the quarter being 430.7 million dollars against our guidance of 422 million dollars,

en The operating losses on a bad week were a million dollars and on a good week they were three-quarters of a million dollars. That's the kind of money it was blowing.


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