Quotes and Sayings About Dimes
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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
-- Albert Brooks -
Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
-- Anzia YezierskaSource : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
-- Bela Lugosi -
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People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers’ needs.
-- Ben Chestnut -
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
-- Bo BurnhamSource : Song: Ex-Girlfriend Racial Humor, Album: Words Words Words, 2010
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And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
-- Bob BalabanSource : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
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Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!
-- Brian Tracy -
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
-- Bryan Adams -
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
-- Buddy Guy -
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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 -
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
-- Carroll Shelby -
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
-- Chad Kroeger -
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I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.
-- Chuck Yeager -
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.
-- Dave Ramsey -
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that
-- Dean Kamen -
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I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
-- Dennis Kozlowski -
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
-- Douglas Horton -
I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.
-- Dudley MooreSource : "Fictional character: Arthur Bach". "Arthur", www.imdb.com. 1981.
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You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
-- Eric Thomas -
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.
-- Evel Knievel -
Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
-- Freddie Mercury -
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These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
-- Gayle Forman -
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
-- George Eastman