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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

  Billie Holiday

  Mom, Jobs, Believe

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, World

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 06, 2014

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• Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they’re happy.

  Rob Ford

  Couple, Giving, Love Of Money

  "Mayor Rob Ford's Most Outrageous One-Liners" by Rheana Murray, abcnews.go.com. May 1, 2014.

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• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  Vanilla Ice

  Girl, Years, Jam

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  Rachel Bilson

  Hair, Europe, Envy

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• The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loneliness, Self, Exile

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.67, Basic Books

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• I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

  Ethan Hawke

  Independent, Cutting, Film

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• You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go.
  We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window:
  "Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown,
  Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down."
  I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes,
  But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues.

  Kool G Rap

  Spring, Rap, Men

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• I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Posterity

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• I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

  Angie Harmon

  Children, Two, Long

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• I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Couple, Writing

  "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

  Fred Thompson

  Pundits, Bigs, Knows

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.

  Alfred Bester

  Men, Sheep, Average

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

  John Grisham

  Jobs, School, Years

  John Grisham (1995). “The Rainmaker”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Home, Touching, Use

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• You’re so beautiful. I wish I’d seen you as a child. (Acheron) You didn’t miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Children, Hair

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• We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Song, Grateful

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• The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish

  Tate Hallaway

  Ex Boyfriend, Dark, Looks

  Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.283, Penguin

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• Amen,' I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I'll have forgotten about it and will finally have said heart attack when I assume a rat shat in there.

  Jen Lancaster

  Heart, Chocolate, Rats

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.88, Penguin

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