Chickens Quotes - Page 18

• I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Want, Ballerina

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• If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

  Kevin Hart

  Hair, Resemblance Is, Skins

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea." Please, hiding in your bedroom for six years with the blinds closed? How about "Chicken of the Sea?

  Jay Leno

  Years, Sea, Want

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• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Young

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

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• Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Aesop

  Home, Evil, Wish

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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• [Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

  Plato

  Mother, Plato, Alive

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• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Cancer

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• The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

  P. T. Barnum

  Errors, Age, Doe

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.62, Applewood Books

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• Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Money, Lying, Hands

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Tales of Neveryeon”, p.171, Wesleyan University Press

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• The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.

  George Sarton

  Pie, Way, Absence

  George Sarton (1918). “The Teaching of the History of Science”

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• Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

  Philippe Kahn

  Looks, Want, Faces

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• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Animal, Ideas, Meat

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• Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Puffins, Danish

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• Do you think to yourself, 'Wow, I saw this chicken and she was gorgeous?'

  Les Dennis

  Funny, Animal, Thinking

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• It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

  Stan Shih

  Entrepreneur, Tails, Cows

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• There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Hurt, Animal, Blood

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• They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Attitude, Mistake

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• It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Needs, Bottles

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• A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Crow, Three

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• Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

  Jack Canfield

  Book, Soul, Soup

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• I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

  Dan Barber

  Motivation, Inspiration, Feeding

  "How I fell in love with a fish". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

  Jack Horner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, Elements, Taste

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