Bucks Quotes - Page 9

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Jobs, Singing, Clubs

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• Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

  John Grisham

  Couple, Years, Guy

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler

  Country, Business, Velvet

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.116, Grove Press

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• Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

  Sue Grafton

  Pain, Hard Work, Writing

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• You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

  Laurie Anderson

  Men, Years, Luck

  Song: Beautiful Red Dress

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• Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I'll propose anything where I can make a buck.

  Harold Ballard

  Propose, I Can

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• When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Motto, Made

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• Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

  Peter Farrelly

  Graduation, Fun, Successful

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• There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.

  George Steele

  Wrestling, Guy, Blowing It

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

  Harry S. Truman

  Organization, People, History

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• Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

  Mitt Romney

  Dollars, Politics, Thousand

  "'Poor' Mitt's 5 worst verbal gaffes" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. February 1, 2012.

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• It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Kids, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 25, 2013

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• Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

  Doug Stanhope

  Mothers Day, Wall, Fists

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• In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

  Ed Miliband

  Party, Wings, People

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• What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House.

  Eric Bolling

  Thinking, White, House

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• Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

  Norm MacDonald

  Boys, Men, Two

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• Hi, I'm a buck tooth and I like to be outside past the lips.

  Dane Cook

  Past, Teeth, Lips

  Song: Turn on's slash turn off's

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• There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

  Raymond Chandler

  Jobs, Wall, Nice

  "The Long Goodbye". Book by Raymond Chandler, 1953.

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• I just don't think the Bob Costas, Joe Buck - I don't think that the people that rise to the highest - Jim Nantz, Mike Tirico - need a schtick. I just think Brent Musburger is really good.

  Colin Cowherd

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

  Jack Kerouac

  Three, Saving, Fifty

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.160, Penguin

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• As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Names

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• Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Christmas, Spiritual

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• Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Believe, Fighting, Generations

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