Dimes Quotes

• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Knowing, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

  Stephen King

  Flirting, Long, Honey

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Pockets, Dollars

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• I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

  Ridley Scott

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  Natalie Wood

  Work, Believe, Stores

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

  Beth Henley

  Christmas, Writing, School

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dozen, Brilliant Ideas

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• I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Jobs, White

  "Why Environmentalists Should Occupy Wall Street" by Phil Aroneanu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Increase, Taxes, Tax Increases

  "Without evidence, Wash. Times claimed Obama "reneged" on campaign promises" by Nathan Tabak, www.mediamatters.org. April 8, 2009.

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

  Dave Ramsey

  Ideas, People, Dozen

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• Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

  Brad Pitt

  Dozen

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• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Cities

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• Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Money, Financial

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• Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Team, Actors, Dozen

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Directors, Able

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• I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Government, Stewardship, Millions

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• People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Situation

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Birth Defects, Research, Prevention

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• All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

  Jello Biafra

  Albums, Permission

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 24, 2001.

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• New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Ideas, Dozen

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• I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

  Paul Simon

  Believe, Paper, Capture

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• I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

  Bela Lugosi

  Age, Dependent, My Friends

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