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• I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Hot, May

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• In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

  Cat Cora

  Boys, Night, Goes On

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• I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Motivation, Responsibility, Simple

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• Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.' Poor Joe!' Lucky Larry!

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Girl, Husband, Lucky

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

  Jason Aldean

  Mom, Jobs, Had Enough

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• Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

  Paul Lynde

  Food, Needs, Sandwiches

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• A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Artist, Cake, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

  Kristen Bell

  Dog, Cat, Hard Times

  ""Kristen Bell Charity Work, Events and Causes"". PETA's “World’s Sexiest Vegetarians” Award, www.looktothestars.org. 2006.

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• I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

  Nathan Fillion

  Nice, Ipods, Phones

  "Nathan Fillion Interview – WAITRESS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  Dolley Madison

  House, Wagons, Hours

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Evolution, Mechanic

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• I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

  Annie Lennox

  Want, Spinning, Different

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• I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Artist, Hats

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sorry, Hands, Sound

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

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• My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Art, Sunday

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• My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Husband, Son, Spinning Plates

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• My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

  Nikki Sixx

  Photography, Cameras, Use

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• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

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• My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

  Josh Turner

  Dream, Cowboy, Sight

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• Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

  Bob Uecker

  Brother, Home, Weekend

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• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Vices, Doe

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• The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

  Joss Whedon

  Song, Thinking, Glasses

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