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• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Men, Years

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• Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

  David Gerrold

  Kissing, Boys, Hands

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• Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

  Drake

  Humble, Smoking, Lines

  Song: Successful

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• You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden.

  Jon Stewart

  Rewards, Enough, Bin Laden

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• Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people in the state who would have given a plug nickel for our chances of making a dollar. So sometimes, you need a little courage, too, just to buck popular opinion.

  Herb Kelleher

  Texas, Nuts, People

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• I took some sense and made a nickel of it.

  Drake

  Humble, Made

  Song: Paris Morton Music

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• I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

  Bob Seger

  Hurt, Giving, Wish

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• Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

  Larry Wall

  Feet, Hey, Tolls

  Usenet article "Script to center text", groups.google.com. August 13, 1992.

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• By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?

  Calvin Trillin

  Thinking, Two, Dimes

  Calvin Trillin (1992). “Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life”, Mariner Books

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• I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Play, Piano, Forgive Me

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• If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Military, Blow

  "The Radio Factor", November 8, 2005.

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• When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

  Arthur Miller

  Broken, Bottles, Deposits

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.167, Penguin

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• I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

  Paul Engle

  Country, Past, Hands

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• Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Dimes, Whiskey

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• I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

  Spike Lee

  Principles, Finals, Cost

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

  Busta Rhymes

  Alcohol, Drug, Bags

  Song: Get High Tonight, Album: When Disaster Strikes..., 1997

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• Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Horse, Prayer

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3132, GENERAL PRESS

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• She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Social Taboos, Soul, Body

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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• He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Hands, Dimes

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

  Ezra Pound

  Fighting, Flags

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• I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.

  Nicole Krauss

  Trying, Unseen, Dimes

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• There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Elements, Disease, Finance

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• Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

  Roy Orbison

  Work, Shining, Dimes

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• At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

  Tommy Douglas

  Friday, Wall, War

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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