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• When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

  George Weah

  Growing Up, School, Popcorn

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

  Henry Czerny

  Dad, Bags, Ends

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

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• In general, working on a horror movie is no different than working on any movie. Turn the camera around and there's 20, 30 people standing around, eating doughnuts, smoking cigarettes between takes, working, like any other set.

  Lindsey Haun

  People, Smoking, Different

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.

  Richard Simmons

  Years, Differences, Oatmeal

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.orlandosentinel.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Gambling, Addiction

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• You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another doughnut and pay the money, and you want to do it in the short term, but in the long term it's not good for you either financially or from a health perspective.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, Long, Perspective

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those machines where you buy doughnuts, those vending machines with the long johns and doughnuts. We would buy those bagels and pastries because that was our treat. And come back with shopping bags of these sweets, and who knows what was in it? That was what we could afford that could feed that many people.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mom, Sweet, Shopping

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

  Dan Deacon

  People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

  Hillary Scott

  Whiskey, Get Away, Be Good

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• My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

  Alton Brown

  Honesty, Writing, Self

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• Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed. Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts," Ranger said. My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out.

  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Cupcakes, Mind

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• A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

  David Sedaris

  Night, College, Drug

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Pessimist, Optimist, Whole

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• There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

  Janet Evanovich

  Finishing, Firsts, Tomorrow

  Janet Evanovich (1992). “Naughty Neighbor”, Loveswept

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• She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Memories, Believe

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.29, Penguin

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• Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli

  Janet Evanovich

  Begging You, I Can, Keep Going

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• I'd hate to list our specialties. Wreck cars, eat doughnuts, create mayhem.

  Janet Evanovich

  Hate, Car, Wrecks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.626, Bantam

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• Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.

  Rachel Caine

  Men, Thinking, Zips

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.30, Allison & Busby

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• Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Coffee, Kids, Fighting

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• How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!

  Robert Riskin

  Horse, Thinking, Laughing

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• My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

  Malcolm X

  Eating, My Family, Poor

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• I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yellow, Office, Boss

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin

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• Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. “Climb the mountain,” Hedge said. “Kill everything except Piper’s dad. Leave.” “Thank you General Eisenhower,” Jason grumbles.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Flower, Hands

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