Bucks Quotes - Page 5

• Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

  Kinky Friedman

  Eight, Would Be, Cuban Cigars

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• I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!

  Christopher Titus

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Father, Block

  "Titus / Episode 27". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.

  Tim Allen

  Running, Reality, Jail

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.

  Don Rickles

  Party, Believe, Get Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket.

  Greg Giraldo

  Believe, Insane, Looks

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• Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.

  Richard Jeni

  Six, Watches, Sandwiches

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• I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mother, Two, Wife

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.55, Zondervan

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• You can't buck the market.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Nevermind

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• To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Honesty, Successful, Artist

  Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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• Lets not focus on saving a nickel... lets focus on making a buck.

  Adam Carolla

  Focus, Saving, Nickels

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• Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.

  Jared Bernstein

  Mean, Payroll Tax, Salary

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• Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.

  Freedy Johnston

  Jobs, Thinking, Careers

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• For a long time I thought-'I've got to buck up and be strong. I've got to put on a brave face-and get through this near burn-out or that discouraging time in my life,'" "God has really seriously changed my thinking on this. When you take off the mask, you relate at a base level to everyone else who has been through pain-and everyone has. Honesty promotes intimacy and promotes us together relying on God. True honesty is beautiful.

  Rebecca St. James

  Beautiful, Strong, Pain

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• When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

  Mia Bloom

  Children, Media, Bangs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

  Charles Koch

  Creating Value, Customers, Ifs

  Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

  David Neeleman

  World, Empty, Gates

  Source: skift.com

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• When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

  Luke Evans

  Flying, Pockets, Knows

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"

  Cynthia Nixon

  Pain, Successful, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.

  Rahki

  Artist, Thinking, Knowing

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• My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.

  Carl Gardner

  Song, Teacher, School

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• I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.

  Robert Schwentke

  Morning, Smart, Years

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.

  Richard Masur

  Beach, Real, Ocean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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