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Buck up or stay in the truck. -- Sarah Palin
Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers. -- Walt Disney
People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on. -- Gil Gerard
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. -- Michael Stipe
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus. -- Terre Thaemlitz
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. -- Wilfrid Hyde-White
I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright. -- Muhammad Ali
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. -- James Joyce
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. -- Burton Cummings
When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. -- Scott Raab
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was. -- Lionel Richie
I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights. -- Jasper Fforde
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive. -- Buzz Osborne
I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars. -- Charles Bolden
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air. -- Buzz Aldrin
We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer. -- Ozzie Smith
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. -- Gregory Harrison
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom. -- Paul A. Lombardo
As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip. -- Phil Foglio
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers. -- Ray Bradbury
She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art. -- Duff Brenna
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. -- Dwight Yoakam
I just don't think the Bob Costas, Joe Buck - I don't think that the people that rise to the highest - Jim Nantz, Mike Tirico - need a schtick. I just think Brent Musburger is really good. -- Colin Cowherd
No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later. -- Gil Gerard
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. -- Jack London
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound. -- Juice Newton
He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him. -- Ozzie Guillen
The Ranger who trained me at the time was [American] Major Buck Kernan, who became Supreme Allied Commander. I hadn't spoken to him in a few years, but he reached out to me and said, "I'm so proud of you." -- Scott Raab
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. -- Ken Burns
Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too. -- Monte Irvin
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept. -- Gil Gerard
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. -- Debbie Macomber
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few." -- Debbie Macomber
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei. -- James Joyce
... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ... -- Brad Paisley
Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world. -- Nicholas Evans
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. -- Young Buck
The buck stops here! -- Harry S Truman
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. -- Rupert Murdoch
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. -- Tom Waits
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. -- John D. Rockefeller
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. -- Tom Brokaw
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! -- Dennis Weaver
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. -- Guy Kawasaki
And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else. -- Jimmy Buffett
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. -- Sam Walton
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. -- G. M. Trevelyan
For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand. -- Albert R. Broccoli
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. -- James Cash Penney
As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. -- Marilyn Manson
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. -- George Strait
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. -- Barack Obama
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. -- Gene Simmons
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. -- Guy Fieri
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on. -- Ann Hood
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store. -- Gary Calamar
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way. -- Avicii
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. -- Rachael Ray
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. -- Harold Prince
You can't buck the market. -- Margaret Thatcher
Redheaded women buck like goats. -- James Joyce
Now all my niggas gettin buck Overbite -- Nicki Minaj
Little brothers are the buck privates of life! -- Charles M. Schulz
I've always been driven to buck the system. -- Sam Walton
If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change. -- David Gerrold
I'll propose anything where I can make a buck. -- Harold Ballard
Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil. -- Vinnie Tortorich
Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much. -- Ella Baker
Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck. -- Kool Keith
I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck. -- Walter Lantz
I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. -- Jack Kirby
That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto -- Nas
Are we going buck-naked, or are we wearing like a bathing suit? -- Scott Disick
Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion. -- Herb Kelleher
Lets not focus on saving a nickel... lets focus on making a buck. -- Adam Carolla
Hi, I'm a buck tooth and I like to be outside past the lips. -- Dane Cook
Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else. -- Lawrence Tierney
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. -- Elmore Leonard
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. -- Carl Sandburg
Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal. -- Lauren Myracle
When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. -- Ice Cube
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything. -- Charles E. McKenzie
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife. -- Edward Abbey
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. -- Tommy Rettig
"S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him -- Nicki Minaj
L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know. -- Billy Eckstine
As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck. -- Kevin Spacey
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. -- Ben Affleck
I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct. -- Daniel Dumile
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days! -- Rachael Ray
I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness! -- Emo Philips
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. -- Pat Cash
I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly. -- Angie Harmon
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. -- Gerald R. Ford
The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody. -- Studs Terkel
Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. -- Angela Lansbury
Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others. -- Martin Sheen
When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous. -- Jack Whitehall
You're so beautiful. I wish I'd seen you as a child. (Acheron) You didn't miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around. -- Charles Koch
Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes. -- Puff Daddy
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. -- Barack Obama
I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else. -- Harry S. Truman
What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House. -- Eric Bolling
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck. -- Gretchen Rubin
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made. -- Harry S. Truman
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. -- Eric Avery
The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck. -- David Duchovny
The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will. -- Wael Ghonim
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. -- Nat King Cole
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. -- Sue Grafton
When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention. -- Mia Bloom
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss. -- Al Neuharth
In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend -- Ed Miliband
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on. -- Katy Perry
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me. -- Rupert Murdoch

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