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• OK, here's a little bedroom tip: Put a bag of popcorn in the microwave beforehand. That way when you're done, you have a treat.

  LIZ

  Popcorn, Bags, Done

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• I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Forever

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• Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

  Martha Bolton

  Two, People, Cooking

  Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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• A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation.

  Devra Davis

  Children, Skulls, Brain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Father, Boys

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• My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

  Michael Chabon

  Night, Burritos, Ruins

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• Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hurt, Mean

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• Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Couple, Two, Vcr

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• I like eating pepperoni. I heat it up in the microwave and then I let it roast and then I eat it with cheese.

  Willow Smith

  Cheese, Heat, Eating

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

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• Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

  Charles Petzold

  Kitchen, Computer, Ovens

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• Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Nuclear, Cloning

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Sarcastic, Real, Book

  Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?

  Janet Evanovich

  Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Hot

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Two For The Dough: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Father, Book

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

  Cassandra Clare

  Kitchen, Gone, Tables

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• Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Trying, Buttons, Hot

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.198, Bantam

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• You shouldn't be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Six

  Adam Carolla (2010). “In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Odd, Primitive

  Kim Harrison (2010). “Every Which Way But Dead”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Epic, Hot

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

  Lou Reed

  Rip, Writing, People

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• I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.

  Michael Owen

  Hate, Coffee, Tea

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• I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taco Bell, Bells, Tacos

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

  David Oyelowo

  Nice, Opportunity, Order

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• I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.

  Missy Elliot

  Games, Giving, Fans

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