Bucks Quotes

• When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

  Dennis Weaver

  Environmental, Done, Cleaning

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• I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Balls, Down And, Gigs

  "ON THE COVER: Aynsley Dunbar". Interview wth Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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• If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

  Mickey Gilley

  Cutting, Pockets, Albums

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• I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Trust, Want

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• Buck up or stay in the truck.

  Sarah Palin

  Truck

  "Karl Rove swipes back at Sarah Palin after cracks on CPAC stage" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

  Merton Miller

  Information, Serious, Finance

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• The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Business, Guy, Economy

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• As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

  Phil Foglio

  Role Models, Roles, Firsts

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• My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Hands, Ipods

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• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Adam West

  Movie, People, Culture

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• Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Responsibility, Marketing, Blame

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Creativity, Unique

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.61, Bantam

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• I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

  Tom Waits

  Trying

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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  Ozzie Smith

  Sports, Real, People

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• If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

  Claudia Christian

  Done, Playboy, Ifs

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• Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Thinking, Tuesday, Giving

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• I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

  Broderick Crawford

  Cop, Made, Robbers

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• I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

  Gene Simmons

  Guy, Progress, Library

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• Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

  Angela Lansbury

  Directors, Shows, Extraordinary

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• At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Responsibility, Levels, Looks

  Address To A Joint Session of the Louisiana State Legislature, delivered 14 September 2005, Baton Rouge, LA

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• Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

  Gil Gerard

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

  Tommy Rettig

  Years, Four, Tides

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• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  Nat King Cole

  Inspiring, Night, Guy

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