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• two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Two, Hypocrisy, Chocolate

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• Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.

  Julia Child

  Children, Growing Up, Revenge

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cooking, Peppers

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

  Washington Irving

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Wife

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Comfort, Caviar, Dinner

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

  Margaret Deland

  People, Cooking, Lawyer

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• That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.

  Helen McCloy

  Political Opinions, People, Promise

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• It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, Membership, Groups

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Humanity, Littles

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

  Dale Spender

  Real, Men, Humanity

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• We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

  Laura E. Richards

  Joy, Sorrow, May

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• If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

  Kyo Maclear

  Beautiful, Flower, Perfect

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• Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

  Mark Bittman

  Beer, Feelings, Pasta

  Mark Bittman (2008). “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not into sugar for kids, but you don't want your kid to be the carrot kid. There's always the kid at the birthday parties carrying a bag of carrots. You've got to let them eat a little cake.

  Tobey Maguire

  Party, Kids, Bags

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• I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Girl, Home, Simple

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

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Would Be, Four, Olympics

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• I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

  Anna Chancellor

  People, Recipes, Sponges

  "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.

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• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  Wentworth Miller

  Jobs, Rejection, Looks

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

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• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Turkeys, Games

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• You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Writing, Needs

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• I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

  Adriana Lima

  Chocolate, Coconuts, Combination

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• Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hate, Men, Soap

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