Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime."
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Dimes
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Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations."
Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime."
Stephen King
Author
"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?"
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"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
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"Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor."
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"I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!"
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"Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn.""
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"The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances."
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"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
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"I've saved every dime I've made in my life."
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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!"
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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?"
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"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."
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"When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere."
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"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."
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"But actors with political views are a dime a dozen."
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"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."
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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."
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"The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it."
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"So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?"
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"That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime."
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"I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled."
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"There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney."
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