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

  Shay Mitchell

  Gum, Red, Chewing

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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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• Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Time, Fog, Dumb

  Quoted in Richard Reeves, A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975)

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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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• So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

  John Mason Brown

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

  Lonnie Donegan

  Mother, Doe, Unanswered Questions

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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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• 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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• She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

  Liam Gallagher

  Book, Writing, Judging

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• Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing something else which will become a substitute. You may start chewing gum, it is the same; You may start chewing pan, it is the same, there is no difference. You need something to do with your mouth - smoking, chewing, anything. When your mouth goes on working, you feel at ease because through the mouth tensions are released. So whenever a man feels tense he starts smoking.

  Rajneesh

  Fighting, Men, Differences

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• Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Gum, World

  "Remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York". November 8, 1963.

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• It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

  A. J. Liebling

  Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies

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