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• We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

  Dale Carnegie

  Friends, Thank You, Thankful

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Apples, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

  Werner Herzog

  Potato Chips, Restaurants, Despise

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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• While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Brain, England

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.331, Penguin

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• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Reality, People, Worry

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Might

  My Summer in a Garden "FifteenthWeek" (1870)

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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• The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Interesting, Cheesy, Cheese

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• A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Different, Rhythm

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• Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Exercise, Television

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• It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Mother

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• There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, House, Lists

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my body any importance. I was a couch potato who'd eat anything. Then, in 2005, a tabloid ran a story calling me fat. I thought, 'I'm famous. How can I be fat?' It was a slap. I decided to get fit.

  Bipasha Basu

  Giving, Looks, Stories

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• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Beer

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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  Joe Conason

  Patriotic, Cutting, Two

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• I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

  Daniel Levitin

  Oats, Earth, Corn

  Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.42, Penguin

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• It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Bird, Miracle

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, June 5, 2006.

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• Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

  Michael Kors

  Clothes, Shining, Meat

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• My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Home, School, Pie

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• People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Years, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

  William Tyler

  Pride, Men, Class

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• The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.

  Alexander Theroux

  Oil, Ducks, Skins

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• I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

  Chad Smith

  Baseball, Fun, Play

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