Dimes Quotes

• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Knowing, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?

  Stephen King

  Flirting, Long, Honey

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Pockets, Dollars

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• I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

  Ridley Scott

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

  Beth Henley

  Christmas, Writing, School

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  Natalie Wood

  Work, Believe, Stores

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

  Douglas Horton

  Ideas, Dozen, Brilliant Ideas

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• You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Increase, Taxes, Tax Increases

  "Without evidence, Wash. Times claimed Obama "reneged" on campaign promises" by Nathan Tabak, www.mediamatters.org. April 8, 2009.

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• I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Jobs, White

  "Why Environmentalists Should Occupy Wall Street" by Phil Aroneanu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

  Dave Ramsey

  Ideas, People, Dozen

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• History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Nickels, Turns, Turn-on

  Jeff Greenfield (2011). “Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n”, p.9, Penguin

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• There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Money

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Ambition

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

  Evel Knievel

  Thinking

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

  Arne Duncan

  Recovery, Years, Reform

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• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Forever, Remember

  "Rachel Zoe's Best Fashion Moments" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Looks, Misfits, Made

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• I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

  Chely Wright

  Life, Made, Saved

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• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Being thankful is also the law of increase. What we give thanks for is automatically multiplied. If we have only a dime and give thanks for it, it will soon be increased. If we resent our position and dwell upon what we lack, that is exactly what we get back.

  Robert Scheid

  Law, Giving, Being Thankful

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

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

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• But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Mean, Years

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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