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• I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Type

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• Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

  LL Cool J

  Apples, Healthy, Fruit

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• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  Samuel Lover

  Wine, Years, Essence

  Samuel Lover, John PROCTOR (Artist) (1863). “Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor”, p.160

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• When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

  Regina Brett

  Sick, Radiation, Size

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Air

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Jelly, Young, Feels

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• The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a matter of fact, if the investigations had been pointed toward some material that I thoroughly dislike, such as parsnips, I still would not feel that evidence of the type presented constituted a reasonable excuse for eliminating the things from my diet. I will still continue to smoke, and if the tobacco companies cease manufacturing their product, I will revert to sweet fern and grape leaves.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Sweet, Science, Smoking

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• The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.

  Dave Barry

  Nuts, Marketing, Sugar

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• I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

  Demetri Martin

  Congratulations, Giving, Just One

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2013

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• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Book, Thinking, Lunch

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• I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower.

  Laura Benanti

  Shoes, Two, Followers

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

  Adam Ant

  Wall, Angel, Apes

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• None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

  Donald Evans

  Loyalty, Wine, Heaven

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wrath, Government, Media

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• I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

  Lou Holtz

  Wall, Winning, Eight

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Humility, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wrath, Medicine

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• I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for cranberries is doing a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey, what do you got, some apples? Put some cranberries in there. We'll call it cran-apple and go 50-50. What do you got grapes? How about cran-grape. What do you got mangos? Cran-mango. What do you got pork chops? Cran-chops. Why don't you back off, cran-man. Why don't you take your sales trophy and have a vacation.

  Brian Regan

  Jobs, Men, Vacation

  "Comedy Central Presents" ("Brian Regan"), September 06, 2000.

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• I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

  Roger Daltrey

  Mean, Play, Fans

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• I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape." I thought he was so amazing in that one. He was a young man, really very young boy.

  Maggie Smith

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I would pour grape juice over mounds of ice cream and settle in to see what was happening with Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans and the boys in The Big Valley.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Boys, Ice, Escaping

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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• The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

  Cesar Chavez

  Self, Justice, Optimism

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• You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

  Paul Newman

  Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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