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• Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Godly

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

  Sara Paretsky

  Food, Peanut Butter, Comfort

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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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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• Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

  Owen Wister

  Sweet, Plato, Food

  Owen Wister (2016). “OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…”, p.625, e-artnow

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• Men are not potatoes!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Starship Troopers”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Mean

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Ch. XXII: The Letter, 1853.

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• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, Beef, May

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

  Richard Helms

  Witty, Reality, Couches

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• I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

  Ariel Pink

  Home, Underwear, Watches

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

  Phil Hartman

  Glasses, Wigs, Noses

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

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• If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me feel awful. It would be terrible.

  Penny Lancaster

  Would Be, Awful, Too Much

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• I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

  Sandra Bullock

  Hands, Piano, Should

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• I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

  James Beard

  Guise, Enamored

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• One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.

  Etienne Decroux

  Necklaces, Pearls, Whole

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• If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Pay The Price, The End Of The Day

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• Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

  Julie Powell

  Simple, Easy, Needed

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• My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Sweet, Guy

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• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Garden, Grows

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• I'm pretty much a couch potato.

  Wentworth Miller

  Couches

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• Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Potato Chips, Bailouts

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Favorite Foods, My Favorite

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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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