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• (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

  Roger Ebert

  Mistake, Hero, Iron

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.300, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

  Chris Cornell

  Awkward, World, Geek

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Apr 04, 2012

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• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Swimming, Animal, Perfectly Good

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• I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.

  Sprague Grayden

  Eggs, Lunch, Apples

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• One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

  Tobias Smollett

  Zest, Giving, Soup

  Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161

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• Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham.

  Bill Maher

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.170, Penguin

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• This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

  John Hurt

  Passing On, Worry, Acting

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

  Haley Lu Richardson

  Kids, People, Laughing

  Source: wwd.com

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• Eternity is a ham and two people.

  Dorothy Parker

  Two, People, Eternity

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• As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff.

  Sharon Jones

  Crazy, Ducks, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Mother, Father, Shirts

  Dick Van Dyke (2016). “My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke”, p.15, John Blake Publishing Ltd

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• God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Running, Dream, Religious

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• I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

  Michael McKean

  Thinking, Whimsy, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Cooking, Ceilings

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.41

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• I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

  Elvis Presley

  Country, Grease, Pork

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• Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

  Chuck Robb

  Sandwiches, Injustice, Jury

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• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving, Being Yourself, Fun

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Tea

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• Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.

  Mary Martin

  Bunch

  "My Heart Belongs". Book by Mary Martin (p. 268), 1976.

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• I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

  Queen Latifah

  Class, Acting, Natural

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Musician

  Source: www.levity.com

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• I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.

  Rihanna

  Real, Thinking, Opposites

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• You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Kids, Kissing, Names

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• Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pigs, Order, Georgia

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.52, Macmillan

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• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  Charles Simonyi

  Use, Radio, Given

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