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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

Bob Hope

Funny, Humorous, Believe

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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

P. Chidambaram

Past, Thinking, Self

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My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Alexander Ludwig

Writing, Guitar, Computer

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This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

Matt Taibbi

America, Stealing, Get Away

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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thinking, America, Progress

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

Matsuo Basho

Writing, Poetry, Doubt

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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

Phyllis McGinley

Reading, Poetry, Amount

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When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside.

Nick Offerman

People, Bored, Trying

"Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

Kesha

Animal, Looks, Biting

Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

Ann Richards

Baseball, Fun, Cells

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

Past, Reality, Action

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.46, Transaction Publishers

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Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Rick Bayan

Appreciation, Art, Golf

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As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Philip Stubbs

Sports, Football, Fighting

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I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

Taylor Swift

Dating, Entertainment, Feels

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I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

Curtis Stone

Men, Guy, Cooking

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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

Baseball, Dream, Hero

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Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

Elio Di Rupo

Jobs, Government, Two

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Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Joseph Monninger

Reading, Fishing, Hiking

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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Aldous Huxley

Art, Philosophy, Simple

Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.

Frederick Lenz

Sex, Meditation, Alcohol

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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

William Osler

Doctors, Pills, Looks

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.181, ACP Press

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Michel de Montaigne

Sports, Cat, Play

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Funny, Pleasure, Overrated

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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Natalie Goldberg

Poetry

Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Roger Maris

Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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