Bucks Quotes - Page 10

• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Philosophy, School

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, Two, Issues

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• Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
  And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

  Daniel Dumile

  Attitude, Rap, Self

  Song: Rhymes Like Dimes, Album: Operation: Doomsday

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• And y'all scared I can tell
  That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

  Jadakiss

  Mma, Hip Hop, Causes

  "Song: Put Your Hands Up (Album: Kiss Tha Game Goodbye)". 2001.

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• There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we can be out of the gate. If two months into the season or when Roger makes a decision to come to Arlington, I'd love to sit down with Buck and decide whose spot he takes. In reality so much happens during the course of the season, I don't see it as a problem.

  Jon Daniels

  Team, Reality, Two

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• I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't know why that is. I sort intoned in Moulin Rouge, through facial hair and buck-teeth, but I don't really call it singing.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Thinking, Hair, People

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Horror.com Interview, www.horror.com. April 8, 2004.

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• Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Nike, Feet

  Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.183, Vintage

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• The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological, if understandable. At one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Giving, Hatred

  "The State of the Union". Esquire Magazine, May 1975.

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• I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Principles, Noses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

  Lionel Richie

  West, Influence, Realizing

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

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• In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Bulls, Seven, Bureaucracy

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• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  Randall Munroe

  Beach, Writing, Twenties

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• My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Wall, Names

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• No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

  Eli Broad

  Made, Cautious, Reasonable

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• Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

  Faith Prince

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

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  People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.

  Seth Rogen

  People, Kill Me, Paid

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2014

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• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  Preet Bharara

  People, Directors, Dollars

  "How Prosecutor Preet Bharara Is Bringing Mob Squad Justice to Wall Street" by Massimo Calabresi, swampland.time.com. February 01, 2012.

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• I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

  Dave Willis

  Couple, Past, Thinking

  "Random Rules: Dave Willis". Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music.

  Joseph Bruce

  Successful, Thinking, Stills

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• MEN WALK ON THE MOON. To me, this speaks of a time when America wasn't just about the almighty buck. The Russians had put up Sputnik, and the U.S. would not be outdone. I admire that about the American spirit. There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

  Nathan Fillion

  Moon, Men, America

  "Michelle Monaghan Interviews Nathan Fillion About Tyler Shields 'Historical Fiction' Photo Exhibit (Exclusive)". Interview with Michelle Monaghan, www.justjared.com. May 18, 2016.

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• Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck.

  Kool Keith

  Girl, Rap, Ducks

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• Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

  Walt Disney

  Space, Roger, Disneyland

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• That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  World, Pay, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary

  Andy Partridge

  Queens, Clothes, Teeth

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• Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowledge And Power, Race

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