Cents Quotes - Page 24

• I would love to have everybody in the world love Bob Schneider. That's my goal- hundred per cent world domination!

  Bob Schneider

  World Love, Goal, Bob

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

  Mike Leigh

  Couple, Reality, Pay

  "All Films Must Entertain". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what you're going to pay Mexico and use that money and put it towards to the building a wall. If they don't like it, too bad we're go buy the oil.

  Eric Bolling

  Wall, Cutting, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Believe, Greatness

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

  Charles A. Dana

  Media, Two, White

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• Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Grain Of Salt, Looks

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Character, Brave, Tests

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• ..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Stupidity, Minnesota

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• We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Self, Germany

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• I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Kids, Trying

  "Rocker With a Soft Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

  Brian Blessed

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Making Money

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

  Mary Oliver

  Adjectives And Adverbs, Fifty, Five

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Men, People, Voting

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

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• Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Britain, Interest

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• 99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mother, Baby, Arbitrary

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.

  Tony Blair

  Past, Years, People

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• Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Believe, Men

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• We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

  Azim Premji

  Jobs, Responsibility, People

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.

  Eva Mendes

  Fun, Play, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

  John Pilger

  People, Groups, World

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• Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

  Richard Jeni

  Divorce, Looks, Fifty

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• As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Practice, Asking, Imbeciles

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• Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

  Robertson Davies

  Hands, Restoration, Dirt

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• Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

  James Altucher

  Coffee, Men, Dollars

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