Bucks Quotes - Page 8

• You’re so beautiful. I wish I’d seen you as a child. (Acheron) You didn’t miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Children, Hair

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• Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.

  Jen Lancaster

  Heart, Chocolate, Rats

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.88, Penguin

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• The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish

  Tate Hallaway

  Ex Boyfriend, Dark, Looks

  Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.283, Penguin

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• Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.

  Paul Orfalea

  Mother, Running, Shelter

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• I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Poop, Nuggets, Pay

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• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Class, Quirky

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Song, Grateful

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• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  Naomi Wolf

  Entrepreneur, Magazines, Tabloids

  "How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Independent, Accomplishment, Glue

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

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• You think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Player, Thinking

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• You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

  Kevin Smith

  Crush, People, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Mother, Home

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• I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

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• I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Couple, Writing

  "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Balance, Ponies

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• I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

  Fred Thompson

  Pundits, Bigs, Knows

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• A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Home, Touching, Use

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• It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

  Darryl Sutter

  Morning, Reading, Good Day

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• I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bunch, Brows, Mice

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Kids, Views

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• What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

  James Patterson

  Guy, Pay, Like You

  James Patterson (2011). “Maximum Ride: Angel”, p.136, Random House

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• Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

  Dierks Bentley

  Inspirational, Country, Bentley

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• Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

  Annie Dillard

  Wings, May, Matter

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• Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

  Rachael Ray

  Soup, Pot, Bigs

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• I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

  Charles Bolden

  Growing Up, Future, Mars

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