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• Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

  Gail Porter

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• Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

  Malin Akerman

  Nutella, Spoons, Week

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

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Oil, Meat, Tomatoes

  "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.

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• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Cadavers

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.

  A. A. Milne

  Giving, Honey, Way

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• If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

  Atul Gawande

  Long, People, Brain

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Fall, Heart

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• Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

  Robert Bloch

  Heart, Boys, Reputation

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• All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

  Todd English

  Numbers, Vegetables, Advice

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• Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.

  Janet Evanovich

  Gun, Men, Cookies

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.141, Macmillan

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• To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

  Plato

  Art, Learning, Wine

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.106

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• Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Negative

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Past, Rose

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.43, Penguin

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• If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

  Steve Cropper

  Littles, Sam Cooke, Ifs

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• If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, School, Credit

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• You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.

  Tricia Goyer

  Memories, Regret, Years

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 28, 2014

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• Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Eagles, Rags

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Air, Bells

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.

  James Patterson

  Hurt, Swings, Tree

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• Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Kindness, Knives, Small Acts

  Maggie O'Farrell (2013). “Instructions for a Heatwave”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ideas, Cookies, Found

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

  Homer

  Twins, Funny Simpsons, Ifs

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• For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

  Freeman Dyson

  Passion, Science, Thinking

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• You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'

  Roz Chast

  Father, War, Book

  " Life drawing to a close: my parents' final year" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Couple, Mean

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