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• Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Moving, Cat, Kids

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.

  Alan Cohen

  Moving, Thinking, Lakes

  Alan Cohen (2007). “Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It”, p.20, Bantam

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• Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

  Mark Billingham

  Winning, Blood, Fairs

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• I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Brother, Hate, Reality

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Political, Politics, Gains

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

  William Gibson

  Fun, Intelligent, Addiction

  William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

  Charles Bukowski

  Pet, Canaries, Harder

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll itself, what you get is one hundred thirty-six atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen arranged in an exact and complex relationship around a central ring. At the ring's center is a single atom of magnesium. Now: If you remove the atom of magnesium and in its exact place put an atom of iron, you get a molecule of hemoglobin. The iron atom combines with all the other atoms to make red blood, the streaming red dots in the goldfish's tail.

  Annie Dillard

  Oxygen, Blood, Iron

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.127, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

  Chevy Chase

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.

  Barry Moltz

  Simple, Purple, Creating

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• I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Wish, Desire, Attention

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• Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

  Sark

  Eels, Ponds, Electric

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• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Running, People, Different

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• Tony Fernandes is in that goldfish bowl and he's swimming against the tide.

  Niall Quinn

  Football, Swimming, Tides

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• Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Threatening, Sexually

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• Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Talking, Sea

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• I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Temptation, Moral, Financial

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• I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.

  Howard Goodall

  Fun, Lying, Drinking

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• I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

  N.D. Wilson

  Baby, Golden Retrievers, Ants

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• Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Too Much, Drink

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

  David Levithan

  Mom, Giving, Advice

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• Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Sharks, Fancy

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Royal, Bowls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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