Corny Quotes - Page 16

• The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn, Firsts, Bigs

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• All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

  Walt Disney

  Country, Dream, Thinking

  "The Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life". Book by Steven Watts, 2001.

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• If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

  Luther Campbell

  Rapper, Sound, Video

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• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Ideas, Patents

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• It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

  James Stewart

  Country, Fighting, People

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• On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

  Tom Selleck

  Stupid, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

  Drake

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  "Drake: High Times at the YOLO Estate" by Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. February 13, 2014.

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Talking, Guy, Listening

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• My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Daughter, Teacher, Greatest Gifts

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

  William Bennett

  Easy, Vicious, Ifs

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• I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

  Jim Bolger

  Thinking, Views, People

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• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn, Feeding, Made

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• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn

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• I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

  Marc Singer

  Years, Track, Giving

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• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Air, Depth, Dry

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• When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Cat, Sight, Hands

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• The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

  John Bright

  Law, Corn, Wheat

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.

  Ted Williams

  Country, Player, Impact

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• But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Dream, Play, Subjectivity

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.3, PM Press

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Dreamer, Trying

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• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  United States, Corn, Crops

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• Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Energy, Soybeans

  "The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals". Interview with Helen Wagenvoord, michaelpollan.com. September 30, 2004.

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• So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

  George Saunders

  Advice, Littles, Grad

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.17, Random House

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