Chewing Gum Quotes

• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  Hank Ketcham

  Inspirational, Cynical, Gum

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

  Jerry Springer

  Civilization, Gdp, Gum

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• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Television, Gum

  Interview, 28 July 1955, quoted in James B. Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957).

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• On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

  Cecil Beaton

  Mixing, Principles, Gum

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• For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

  Brie Larson

  School, Brain, Gum

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• You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Gum, Half, Hours

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• I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Seven Years, People

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• There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

  Shay Mitchell

  Gum, Red, Chewing

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• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  Jack Welch

  Dream, Commitment, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• [The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.

  Rudolph Schoenheimer

  Hard Work, Science, Two

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• Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

  Warren Buffett

  Hurt, Business, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett's 23 Most Brilliant Insights About Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

  Roddy Piper

  Funny, Badass, Wrestling

  Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello (2002). “In The Pit With Piper”, p.78, Penguin

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• Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

  Russell Brand

  Stupid, Giving, Mind

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• Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.

  Myriam Gurba

  Hate, Bored, Done

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• Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

  Erik Naggum

  Real, Together, Tape

  Re: can lisp do what perl does easily? (Usenet article), groups.google.com. March 23, 2000.

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• People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rapper, People, President

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• Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy. A big stink because the president's chewing gum. And you think, the Chinese are so easygoing about human rights. What's the problem?

  David Letterman

  Crazy, Thinking, Rights

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• If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Firsts, Revolution, Gum

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• Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Teacher, Rap

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, People, Gum

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• If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Morning, Gum, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

  Richard Schickel

  Taken, Reality, Sitting

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