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• We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

  Josh Hutcherson

  Funny, Interesting, Insane

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Sports, Mean, Sheep

  "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia". Book by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, p. 247, 2006.

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• It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Appreciate, Giving, Together

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• Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

  Sandra Lee

  Fun, Kids, Cooking

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• When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

  Kellan Lutz

  Cheese Sandwiches, Meat, Crafts

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• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Home, Views, Want

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• My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

  Bill O'Reilly

  New York, Children, Father

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• I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

  Gary Oldman

  Real, Nice, Lunch

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• I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fun, Wine, Want

  "The Real Gwyneth" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Would Be

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Links, Human Life

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• When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, Hair, Trying

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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• Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

  Gerhard Richter

  Jealous, Inability, Inferiority

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

  Emma Roberts

  Color, Pasta, Potatoes

  Interview with Seventeen magazine, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.

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• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  Julia Roberts

  Mom, Garden, Time And Love

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• Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

  Monica Seles

  Funny Life, Pasta, Life Is

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• I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Rocks, Romance

  Anthony Trollope (1999). “Can You Forgive Her?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Father, Years, White

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• I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

  Robert Winston

  War, School, Years

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• I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Too Much, Aging

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• For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

  Frantz Fanon

  Land, People, Essentials

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

  Carrie Fisher

  Noses, Bakeries, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Carrie Fisher from Apr 14, 2014

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• The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

  Juvenal

  Two, People, Circus

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