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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Cat, Skeletons, Cupboards

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• Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Book, Perfect, Mind

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• We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Skulls, Mind, Trying

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• In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Race, Trying, Use

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• In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

  Roberto Unger

  Views, Political, Vision

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

  Larry Niven

  Book, Add, Four

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• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  L'Wren Scott

  Dream, Tricks, Wanted

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

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• I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

  Black Francis

  Strong, Shy, Band

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Secret

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• We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."

  Eugenia Price

  Jesus, Race, People

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• I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

  Charles Mathias

  Children, School, Home

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• Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Rain, Doe, Littles

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• Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

  Ben Jonson

  Home, Joy, Barns

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.132

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• There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

  Ernest Bramah

  Suicide, Dark, Night

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• Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

  Marlene Dumas

  Drawing, Forever, Paper

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• Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

  Stacy London

  Style, May, Want

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

  Leonard Cohen

  Democracy, Junk, Decay

  Song: Democracy, Album: The Future, 1992

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• (Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Nuts, People, Saws

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• It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.

  Maimonides

  Taken, Gold, Essentials

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.

  Halle Berry

  Morning, Mean, Eye

  "Halle Berry: 'Catwoman for the New Century' Is in Control". The Seattle Times, July 23, 2004.

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• I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

  Cameron Diaz

  Tourists, May, Apologizing

  "Diaz apologises for Maoist slogan". news.bbc.co.uk. June 25, 2007.

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