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• I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.

  Chipper Jones

  Struggle, Thinking, Play

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• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  Fergie

  Burritos, Taco Bell, Bells

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• Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

  John Heywood

  Sweet, Hunger, Hard

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

  Edward Lear

  Sports, Men, Vegetables

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

  Alex Kapranos

  Character, Play, Buying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

  Dick Gregory

  Peace, War, Home

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• Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Mind, Corn

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

  Tom Stoppard

  Would Be, World, Fields

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Years, People, Mexican

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.

  David Wolfe

  Chocolate, Cacao

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• I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

  Moby

  Choices, Different, Yeast

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• I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

  S. J. Perelman

  Running, Food, Apples

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• I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Kings, Queens, Pork

  "Hard times: Wrestling world mourns loss of legend 'The American Dream' Dusty Rhodes" by Neil Docking, www.mirror.co.uk. June 11, 2015.

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• The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Vegetables, Nuts

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

  Roald Dahl

  Vegetables, Interesting, Trying

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• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  Hillary Scott

  Grandmother, Eggs, Grandparent

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Timeless, Ageless

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• I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Sexy, Giving, Done

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• I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

  Danny Pino

  Dream, Grandmother, Black

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• Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

  Chuck Baldwin

  Party, Matter, Constitution

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• If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Ends, Justify, Ifs

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

  Calvin Trillin

  Eight, Years, Meals

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

  Al Yankovic

  Magic

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