Bucks Quotes - Page 2

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

  Eric Alterman

  Stars, Editors, Analysis

  "Eric Alterman: Pay Anchors Like Journalists Instead Of Hedge Fund Managers" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

  Hilary Rosen

  Song, Two, People

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• Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

  James Joyce

  Mirrors, Razors, Mulligans

  Ulysses (1922)

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• You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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• Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

  John Candy

  Nuts, Chicago, Six

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.

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• As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

  Phil Foglio

  Role Models, Roles, Firsts

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• I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

  Gene Simmons

  Guy, Progress, Library

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• When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

  Dennis Weaver

  Environmental, Done, Cleaning

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• I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

  Broderick Crawford

  Cop, Made, Robbers

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• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  Ozzie Smith

  Sports, Real, People

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• To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

  Merton Miller

  Information, Serious, Finance

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• At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Responsibility, Levels, Looks

  Address To A Joint Session of the Louisiana State Legislature, delivered 14 September 2005, Baton Rouge, LA

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• My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Hands, Ipods

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• If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

  Mickey Gilley

  Cutting, Pockets, Albums

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• If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

  Claudia Christian

  Done, Playboy, Ifs

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• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Adam West

  Movie, People, Culture

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• Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

  Angela Lansbury

  Directors, Shows, Extraordinary

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Creativity, Unique

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.61, Bantam

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• I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

  Tom Waits

  Trying

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• I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Trust, Want

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• Buck up or stay in the truck.

  Sarah Palin

  Truck

  "Karl Rove swipes back at Sarah Palin after cracks on CPAC stage" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  Nat King Cole

  Inspiring, Night, Guy

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• I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Balls, Down And, Gigs

  "ON THE COVER: Aynsley Dunbar". Interview wth Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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