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I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything. -- John Scalzi
Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you. -- David Cottrell
Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after. -- Roald Dahl
We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it. -- Rob Reiner
My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard. -- Billy Connolly
BucketI feel so dreamydreamy lazy, crazy sleepylike I want to be therein the doorway, the doorwayor the porch cornerbe sitting, be emptynotdoing not goingan old bucket left therein the porch corner is like I aman old empty bucket somebody left there. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Three Buckets in Life by Ken Poirot: One bucket contains the things we CAN control. The second bucket contains the things we MAY control, and the last bucket contains the things we CAN'T control. Focus on the bucket you CAN control! -- Ken Poirot
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. -- George Orwell
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. -- Tom Stoppard
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. -- Sam Walter Foss
Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point. -- Maggie Smith
I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one. -- Schoolboy Q
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. -- William Butler Yeats
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. -- Percy Ross
I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. -- Tim McGraw
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. -- Chuck Jones
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. -- Jim Rohn
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all. -- Timothy Ferriss
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that. -- Tori Amos
From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another. -- Stella Young
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons. -- Neil Cross
We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. -- Haylie Duff
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. -- Antonio Banderas
You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. -- Bill Cartwright
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. -- Carl Sandburg
To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation. -- Marilyn Manson
I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do. -- Judi Dench
People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can. -- Amy Tan
Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. -- Michelle Malkin
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well. -- Justin Zackham
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait. -- Peter Singer
History is a bucket of ashes. -- Samuel Butler
The past is a bucket of ashes -- Carl Sandburg
Charge hell with a bucket of water. -- Liz Carpenter
Just drop your bucket where you are. -- Sam Walter Foss
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it. -- John Berendt
Becoming a fae leader? Not on my bucket list. -- E.J. Stevens
When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket. -- Dan Snow
Good words quench more then a bucket of water. -- George Herbert
A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket. -- Cynthia Lewis
I don't need a president with a bucket list! -- Chris Rock
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom. -- Robert Jordan
Never plant without a bucket of compost at your side. -- Elsa Bakalar
It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight. -- Naya Rivera
When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. -- Warren Buffett
Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples. -- A.M. Hodgson
Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time. -- Todd Duncan
Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket -- Arthur Melvin Okun
I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed. -- Schoolboy Q
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. -- Lou Reed
There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket. -- Rumi
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. -- Lynda Barry
In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other -- Yosa Buson
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out. -- Bob Marley
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble -- Warren Buffett
Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it -- Gary Paulsen
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket. -- Maxine
I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire! -- Terry Pratchett
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. -- John Updike
My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine. -- Alison Sweeney
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water. -- Yahya Jammeh
Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? -- Douglas Adams
Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true. -- Brittany Maynard
I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely. -- Morena Baccarin
I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues. -- Richard Rorty
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. -- Samuel Woodworth
If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket. -- Billy Connolly
A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires. -- Fred DeLuca
What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth. -- J. Vernon McGee
I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket. -- Billiam Coronel
You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication. -- David Cottrell
Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though. -- Pierce Brosnan
Star Wars' is on my bucket list. Even if it's just a small walk on, I don't care. -- Ming-Na Wen
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. -- Steven Pressfield
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. -- Ambrose Bierce
Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list. -- Kacey Musgraves
Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing. -- Terry Rozier
If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1, -- Matt Damon
If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them. -- Ryan Tedder
You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us! -- Vladimir Yakunin
Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB -- Willie Geist
It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot. -- Miranda Hart
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful. -- Damian Kulash
Valkyrie smiled patiently. "I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket? -- Derek Landy
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water. -- Bella Pollen
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. -- Alan Bennett
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. -- William Stafford
If you have only a glass of water, then one person can drink. If you have a bucket, a whole family can benefit. -- Chen Guangbiao
I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever. -- Lacey Schwimmer
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. -- Ray Charles
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. -- Tori Amos
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable. -- Andy Hargreaves
If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd`s "Freebird" live. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list. -- Ilona Andrews
I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball. -- Amy Jo Martin
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. -- Winston Churchill
I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time. -- Orrin Woodward
At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat. -- Yann Martel
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. -- Orson Scott Card
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. -- Bobby Bragan
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. -- Bobby Bragan
My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere. -- Patrick Stump
My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon. -- Steve Zahn
When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket. -- Alanis Morissette
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! -- Dana Gould
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. -- Robin McKinley
All I'm going to say is that I worked with Christopher Walken the other day. I can cross him and working with Clint Eastwood off my bucket list! -- Jeremy Luke
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. -- Vance Havner
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. "Sadie! Get up," Zia said. "God!" I yelled. "Was that necessary?" "No," admitted Zia. -- Rick Riordan
Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time. -- Dave Barry
I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places. -- Gabrielle Aplin

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