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• Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

  Jeff Probst

  Reality, Competition, Lasts

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• Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.

  Yossi Shain

  Loyalty, Independent, Government

  Yossi Shain (2010). “The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State”, p.18, University of Michigan Press

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• Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, War, Philosophical

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

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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• I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

  H. Rap Brown

  Mean, America, People

  "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.

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• You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Sky

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• This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.

  Ray Nagin

  Eye, Economic, Ready

  "Runoff: New Orleans Mayor". The Associated Press, www.wired.com. April 23, 2006.

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• If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Oil, Ice Cream

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Ideas, Forever, Example

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• I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.

  Si Robertson

  Feet, Pigs, Cooking

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• Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have created in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This novel is a delightful mix of fine writing, powerful emotions, glorious settings and amazing characters who deal with life in a way that will have readers falling in love on every single page.

  Kris Radish

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Character

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• From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Pain, Loneliness, Wyoming

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• It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

  Paul Ryan

  Determination, Believe, Self

  "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Vision, Trying

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

  Bill Paxton

  Men, Thinking, Apples

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father – who I know is up there right now, with a big pot of gumbo, he’s got a lemon meringue pie, he’s probably in his underwear, and he’s got a cold can of Miller Lite – and he’s dancing.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Father, Dancing, Gumbo

  Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.

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• But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top I want it on the side and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real if it's out of a can then nothing.

  Meg Ryan

  Real, Ice Cream, Want

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• God's got his hands in a lot of human pies.

  Wyatt Cenac

  Hands, Humans

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• Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

  Harry Reasoner

  Mom, Baseball, Apples

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• There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

  Jay Leno

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "Oprah Talks to Jay Leno". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2003.

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• I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

  Jason Biggs

  Book, Waiting, Heard

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• In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes

  Jason Biggs

  Character, Order, Likes

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• I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere

  Shane West

  Fans, Bills, Bigs

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• The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.

  Tony Horwitz

  Grandma, Italian, Past

  Tony Horwitz (2008). “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”, Henry Holt and Company

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• If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.

  Tom Kerridge

  Simple, Cooking, Ingredients

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