Dimes Quotes - Page 2

• Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

  Phyllis McGinley

  Christmas, Nickels, Petitions

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Lasts, Used

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• What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

  Dennis Miller

  Business, War, Taken

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• From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Kelsey, Separation, Sometimes

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Guitar, Dozen

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• In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

  Robert Greene

  Masculine And Feminine, Play, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.51, Profile Books

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• But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

  Puff Daddy

  Rap, Light, Cities

  Song: Mo Money Mo Problems

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• Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

  Yip Harburg

  Brother, Railroads, Done

  "Song: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1930) performed as part of the play "New Americana", 1932.

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• Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Giving, Charity, Poverty

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Personality, Salary, Demand

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

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• There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

  Skrillex

  Marketing, Records

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

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• I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ideas, People, Dozen

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• And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Earth, May

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

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• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

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

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

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

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Ambition

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

  Chely Wright

  Life, Made, Saved

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• I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

  Evel Knievel

  Thinking

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

  Gene Simmons

  Nickels

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• These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

  Gayle Forman

  Dollars, Milk, These Days

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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• Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Ideas, One Day At A Time, Would Be

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Forever, Remember

  "Rachel Zoe's Best Fashion Moments" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Looks, Misfits, Made

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