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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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• I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

  Maggie Grace

  Wine, Tea, Littles

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• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  Carl Bernstein

  Views, Issues, Doctrine

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• The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Cat, Skeletons, Bags

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• My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

  Jan Karon

  Writing, Firsts, Hungry

  Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

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• Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

  William Ralph Inge

  Parent, Special, Pedestal

  William Ralph Inge (2015). “The Victorian Age”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, World, Flesh

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

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• If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff.

  Colin Morgan

  Magic, Saws, Cups

  "Merlin actor Colin Morgan is magic". www.mirror.co.uk. September 03, 2008.

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• I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Prayer, Father

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• I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

  Maggie Q

  Dog, Strong, Moving

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

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• We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Would Be, Supplication

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.212, NavPress

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• Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

  Herta Muller

  Sight, People, Everyday

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• Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Eye, Looks

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• Also, you may not have noticed, but this is a cupboard." "I admit that our private office is of modest dimensions," Kami told him, "But that's the way we like it. Just because we're editors doesn't mean we need special privileges. We're not snobs.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Editors, Office

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

  Bob Brown

  Real, Future, Gun

  Bob Brown (2012). “Memo For A Saner World”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Snacks, Kitchen, Trying

  "Jenna Answers Your Fitness Qs!". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Yards, Castles, Littles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  Florence Welch

  Dog, Wall, Play

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• Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed beside the basketball. If you were to reduce the Earth to the size of a basketball, all the fresh surface water on the planet - all those rivers and lakes and ponds and streams - would fit inside that one tiny sesame seed. Add a second sesame seed; now you have all the usable underground water as well. Is fresh water a scarce resource?

  William Ashworth

  Basketball, Rivers, Lakes

  William Ashworth (1995). “The economy of nature: rethinking the connections between ecology and economics”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

  Katie Price

  Noses, If I Could, Ifs

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• I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Book, Long

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• The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

  Colin Angle

  People, Vacuums, Robots

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• Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Years, Mask, Wardrobe

  Source: observer.com

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