William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
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Buckets
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Maggie Smith
Actress
"Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point."
Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out."
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"Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall]."
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"If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful."
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"Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano."
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"The past is a bucket of ashes"
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"Let us not throw the rope after the bucket."
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"I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'"
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"First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through."
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"The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought."
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"Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul."
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"There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket."
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"Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline."
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"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."
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"Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?"
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"A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom."
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"I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove."
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"THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?"
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"Good words quench more then a bucket of water."
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"It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!"
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