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• Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

  Russell Simmons

  Giving, Soul, Purpose

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.85, Penguin

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• The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blue, Sea, Sky

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “The Pocket Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

  Leon Wagner

  Baseball, Lying, Hero

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• That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, People

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• No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Eye, Vampire, Slime

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.7, Penguin

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• Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wind, Sky, One Day

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• Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
  Charlie: What happened?
  Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

  Roald Dahl

  Men, Ever After, Forget

  "Fictional characters: Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", 1971.

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• Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fighting, Sight, Dozen

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• The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

  Michael Moore

  World, Hiring, Huge

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Anger, Years, Hatred

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

  Alison Sweeney

  Running, Husband, Lists

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• My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

  Lynda Barry

  Writing, Goal, Lists

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• There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cheer, Coffee, Fire

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

  Rumi

  Dark, Moon, Night

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• Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Connections, Ministers

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.82, Discovery House

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• Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often

  Hilary McKay

  Sports, Stress, Emotional

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• To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Horse, Hard Work, Riders

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• I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Different, Lists, Bucket List

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• My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Play, Space, Lists

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• I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.

  Kacey Musgraves

  India, Want, Lists

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• I struggled with carpal tunnel for about 15 years to the point where I was going anywhere from acupuncture to chiropractor to actually getting a shot or two of cortisone to dipping my hand in a bucket of ice water during a show to buying a can of air. You turn it upside down and spray it on your wrist to get the frozen aspect of it and hopefully it wakes your hand up so I could get the feeling back in my hand.

  Charlie Benante

  Tunnels, Ice Water, Air

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• It felt like I was a bucket full of holes. Things kept going in but just as quickly, they'd drain out. So I had people telling me I was this and that and then I'd feel pressure to perform up to their standards, jumping through hoops so I could live up to their expectations.

  Christian Hosoi

  Jumping, People, Expectations

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

  Adam Cole

  Fighting, Careers, Next Level

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was and then was interested in me for the role was amazing. I am a huge fan of his and it's like a bucket list thing for me to be able to work with him and knowing that Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven were in it I knew that part was going to be good and as you said, the pedigree of the series was great, so it was really one of those things I couldn't resist.

  Joel McHale

  Knowing, Doubt, Roles

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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