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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Also Always Bread Could Dad Decide Depression Dime Go Going Had He High High School Loaf Me Money Mother Movie Parents Reminded School Some Something Spend Stepmother Taught Teachers Three Were Whether Your

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My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Bother Dime Eye Father Gambler Good Good Man Had He How Insurance Man Mother Never Saw Those Used Vegas Years A Good Man

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

~Douglas Horton

Topics: Bad Bad Ones Dime Dozen Free Good Good Ideas Ideas

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Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

~Douglas Leone

Topics: Dime Dozen Guys Investor Like Me Side

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I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

~Elmore Leonard

Topics: Because Being Better Cents Decided Dime Like Lot Magazines Market Paid Published Pulp Still Story Terrific Thought Two Were Western Westerns Word Write

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One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: About Always Any Awareness Bad Care Character Dime Dozen Genre Good Ironically Movie One Of The Things People Separates Things Think Where You

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

~Evel Knievel

Topics: Dime Landed Really Think I Think

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The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Dime Dollar Euro Europe Get Off Play Tie Win Winner

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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.

~Freddie Mercury

Topics: Always Dime Down Glamorous Guess Last Life Lived New Nothing Nothing New Spend Star Used

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Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Absolute Because Certainly Come Come And Go Damn Damn Thing Dime Dozen Go Politicians Right Thing Think You

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