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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Kids, House, Tree

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

  Rick Perry

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Way

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

  Michael Caine

  Insane, Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

  Jim Bunning

  Agriculture, Kentucky, Who We Are

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• I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Ideas, Want, Secluded

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• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

  Mark Bittman

  Kings, Corn, Collaboration

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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• Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

  Tom Allen

  Business, Community, Backbone

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• I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

  Kevin McCloud

  Country, Thinking

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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  James MacArthur

  Agriculture, Colorado, Skis

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• All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

  Paul Engle

  Love, Cities, Voice

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• And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, Perfect, Degrees

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE KINGDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uncles, School, Guy

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• I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grandparent, Childhood, Tree

  "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.

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• A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

  Kesha

  Thinking, Clothes, Teeth

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

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• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

  Stephen King

  Family, Jobs, Humor

  "Storm of the Century". Drama, Fantasy, Horror, 1999.

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• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Virginia, Farmers

  "Barbara Kingsolver Sets a Fire". Interview With Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Grandparent, Southern

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• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Stress, Careers

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• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Imagination, Waiting

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• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Uncles, Dad, Agriculture

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• We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Educational, Kids, New Orleans

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• My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

  Queen Latifah

  Horse, House, Peaceful

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• There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

  Bob Feller

  Country, War, Home

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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