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Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head. -- Drake
A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness. Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company? -- Tommy Douglas
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. -- Yogi Berra
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel. -- Irving Thalberg
History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel. -- Jeff Greenfield
They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel. -- Ruben Blades
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! -- Phyllis McGinley
Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. -- Richard M. Nixon
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. -- Ted Turner
If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often. -- Tom Wilson
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers. -- Gordon Smith
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. -- Tommy Shaw
When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity. -- Ivan Glasenberg
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. -- Dave Barry
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. -- Tommy Shaw
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. -- Bill Lee
If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. -- Tom Hicks
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment. -- Walt Disney
During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols. -- Paul Sabatier
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them. -- Roz Chast
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account. -- Andy Rooney
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time. -- Orison Swett Marden
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources. -- Benigno Aquino III
I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit. -- Spike Lee
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. -- Immanuel Velikovsky
I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back! -- Paul Engle
A nickel is not worth a penny more. -- Yogi Berra
You cannot get one nickel for commercial flying. -- Inglis M. Uppercu
I took some sense and made a nickel of it. -- Drake
I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime. -- Gene Simmons
Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel -- Lord Byron
When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back. -- Arthur Miller
Lets not focus on saving a nickel... lets focus on making a buck. -- Adam Carolla
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel. -- Ezra Pound
She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul. -- Alice Cooper
Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible. -- John Mayer
Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight. -- Busta Rhymes
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising. -- Garry Winogrand
It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you. -- Mark Twain
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time. -- Emile M. Cioran
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. -- William Tenn
It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money... -- Ayn Rand
Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket -- Groucho Marx
I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it. -- Samuel Goldwyn
He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time. -- Bob Dylan
You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden. -- Jon Stewart
If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal. -- Kate Christensen
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about -- Tommy Shaw
I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt. -- Bob Seger
Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. -- Larry Wall
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel. -- Harlan Ellison
I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor. -- Harriette Simpson Arnow
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade. -- James A. Michener
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Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. -- Henry Ford
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. -- Ronald Reagan
My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel. -- Peter Menzel
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once. -- Taylor Hanson
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour. -- John French Sloan
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. -- Frank Abagnale
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. -- Philip Roth
We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear. -- Mark Steyn

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