#buck

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cook #cookware #dragon #duke #five

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#best #billion #boards #buck #companies

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. ↗

— Conrad Black

#could #get #i #made #million

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#before #bucks #car #ever #first

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#buck #careful #full #governor #happens

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. ↗

— Aynsley Dunbar

#ball #bucks #come #down #gig

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#like #spreading #starbucks

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

#bucket #comfortable #foot #ice #oven

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#buck #difference #easy #lot #make

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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