Baked Potatoes Quotes

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Marriage, Ideas

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Food, Home Cooking

  "Not That It Matters".

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• For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Vegetables, Potatoes, Enough

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Roots, Evil

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Appreciation, Vegetables, Appreciate

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• Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Godly

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

  Laurie Colwin

  Believe, Vegetables, Potatoes

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• I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Forever

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• Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

  Brigham Young

  Prayer, Potatoes, Milk

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• Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.

  Nigella Lawson

  Lying, Ducks, Sauce

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• I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Religious, Hate

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Nov 17, 2012

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• Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fun, School, Cutting

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• I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

  Chad Smith

  Baseball, Fun, Play

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