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• Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Fun, School, Cutting

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• I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

  Minnie Driver

  Cute, Girl, Responsibility

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• The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Rain, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

  Frank Zappa

  Friendship, Names, Looks

  Song: San Ber'dino, Album: One Size Fits All

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• People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

  Richard Cobden

  Jobs, People, Able

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• Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

  George Iles

  Degrees, Might, Lukewarm

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
  And five nose running brats in love with Batman

  Gregory Corso

  Running, Jobs, Wife

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, Illinois, California

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

  Philippe Claudel

  Yield, Cooking, Soul

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Marine, Air

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• Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Best Love, People, Risk

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Guy, Selling, Brando

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

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• In life, one is entitled to a side dish of either coleslaw or potato salad, and the choice must be made in terror, with the knowledge that not only is our time on earth limited but most kitchens close at ten.

  Woody Allen

  Choices, Kitchen, Earth

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

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• My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

  Thom Yorke

  Years, Names, Parent

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• I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!

  Lily Aldridge

  Thanksgiving, Baby, Sweet

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

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• We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet potato pie and lots of gravy. Most players love it, but we also have a baked catfish for players who are still looking to stay on the approved diet.

  Mark Farner

  Country, Sweet, Player

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• I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

  Richie Sambora

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Next Day

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• Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Games, People

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House

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• And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

  Nora Ephron

  Sweet, Holiday, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 22, 2012

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• There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

  Henry S. F. Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Tree

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• Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Baby, School

  Song: Who Shot Ya?, Album: Born Again, 1999

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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• Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

  Robert Atkins

  Sweet, School, Years

  "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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