Candy Stores Quotes

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Phillip Noyce

Kids, Eating, Like You

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I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Brandon Boyd

Smile, Kids, Thinking

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I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Guy Fieri

Dad, Kids, Trying

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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

Arthur Hertzberg

Islands, Class, Culture

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The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

Jamie Ford

Library, Stores, Candy

Jamie Ford (2013). “Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I did had to be a some progressive sample masterpiece. It was nice to blow off steam and work on those songs. For me, that’s what 'The Outsider' was about in general: forget everything, I’m just gonna follow my own music, and make the music I want to make.

DJ Shadow

Song, Fun, Nice

FaceBook post by DJ Shadow from Mar 06, 2015

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I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

Dwyane Wade

Fun, Kids, Trying

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When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

Josh Groban

Kids, Self, Looks

"Josh Groban Stages a musical takeover". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. September 2, 2015.

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To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Paul Stanley

Girl, Kids, Keys

"KISS founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley: Peter Criss and Ace Frehley got what they deserved". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Craig Thompson

Kids, Library, Firsts

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It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.

Charlie Munger

Crazy, House, Quality

Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his compulsive hobby into a profession. If I didn't have my job, I'd be doing almost the same thing for free.

Dick Latvala

Jobs, Kids, Guy

Source: alanpaul.net

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Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

Richard Jeni

Eight, Years, Guy

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My uncle was the first one in my family to get a telephone. It was like going to the moon. He came running over to tell us, and we were so proud. A telephone! We didn't have to go to the candy store to phone any more. We went around telling everyone. But we didn't hear from my uncle for three days, so my father got worried. He said, Let's go over there. We got there, and my uncle was very depressed. I asked, What's the matter? He said, I got a telephone and nobody called me. He didn't give his number out - he didn't know that you had to!

Pat Cooper

Running, Uncles, Father

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I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Kevin Hart

Jobs, Kids, People

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Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.

Charles Krauthammer

Ice, Land, Names

"At Last, Zion: Israel and the Fate of the Jews". The Weekly Standard, www.freeman.org. May 11, 1998.

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Whoa," Connor Stoll said. "Back up. Zoom in right there." "What?" Annabeth said nervously. "You see invaders?" "No, right there—Dylan's Candy Bar." Connor grinned at his brother. "Dude, it's open. And everyone is asleep. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Connor!" Katie Gardner scolded. She sounded like her mother, Demeter. "This is serious. You are not going to loot a candy store in the middle of a war!" "Sorry," Connor muttered, but he didn't sound very ashamed.

Rick Riordan

Mother, Brother, Sorry

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My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Bobby Fischer

Moving, Learning, Chess

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The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.

Greg Nickels

Kids, Epic, Opportunity

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I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Donnie Wahlberg

Sleep, Kids, Stores

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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Dan Fogler

Kids, Awards, Film

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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

H. L. Mencken

Dream, Children, Heart

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

Jane Jacobs

Party, Drinking, Home

Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

Yvonne Strahovski

Sweet, Kids, Keys

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