Dimes Quotes - Page 9

• So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

  Mariah Carey

  Home, Sleep, Eye

  Song: Petals, Album: Rainbow, 1999

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• My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

  Charlene Weir

  Daddy, Trying, Dollars

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• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Dream, Stars, Boys

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• I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.

  Tony Robbins

  Lying, People, Giving

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Athlete, Fighting, Opportunity

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

  Roy Orbison

  Work, Shining, Saving

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• He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Hands, Good Times

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

  Mary Lasswell

  Legs, Unhappiness, Feels

  Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

  Andy Stern

  Government, Stronger, Gains

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• It's hard to be spontaneous when you have 40 people in your crew, and you're playing to 16,000 people every night, and there's giant lighting rigs, it's hard to change direction on a dime.

  Dan Auerbach

  Night, People, Giants

  "Dan Auerbach on bands old and new". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2016.

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• The FBI doesn't get a dime until [James] Comey is gone. George [W.Bush] tried to warn us he was a trouble maker but did Barack [Obama] listen? Nooo!

  Hillary Clinton

  Gone, Trouble, Makers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Cutting, Years

  "The First Presidential Debate". "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2008.

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• We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

  Mark Steyn

  Meaningful, Japan, Political

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• No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
  I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
  suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
  I'm as determined as them old timers.

  Eminem

  Beach, Sex, Cutting

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• Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

  Ray Lewis

  Loss, Swimming, Winning

  "Ray Lewis Delivers Pregame Speech To Stanford Basketball Team" by Brian Floyd, www.sbnation.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

  Earl Blaik

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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• After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

  Wilson Rawls

  Eye, Years, Old Friends

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf

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• I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Class, People

  "Congress Barrels Toward Fiscal Cliff". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2012.

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• Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hate, Tails, Flip

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Life turns on a dime.

  Stephen King

  Turns

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Dollars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?

  John Cage

  Art, People, Burning

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.1, Wesleyan University Press

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• Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

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• Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it's time to move from paying debt to building savings.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Moving, Goal, Next

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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