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• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandmother, Past, Ideas

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• My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

  Rupert Everett

  Holiday, Ideas, Heathers

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• We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Powerful, Mean, People

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Teenager, Parent, Risk

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• You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

  John Irving

  Thinking, People, Dumb

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• I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

  Derek Jeter

  Senior, School

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 26, 2008.

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• I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

  Norah Jones

  Different, Records, Flow

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• My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mom, Names, Guy

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• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  Alan Ball

  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Kick Ass, Kicks, Premieres

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• Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Real, Drug

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• Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Running, Stronger, Tests

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Fate, Missing

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• When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

  Tamora Pierce

  Vow, Force, Glances

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.258, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

  Alan Lightman

  People, Geneva, Looking Back

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.27, Vintage

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• You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Happy Life, Thinking, Play

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sleep, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.83, Anchor

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• A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Successful, Missing

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• I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip

  David Levithan

  Moments, Heartbeat

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. "Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Home, Hands

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• I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

  James Frey

  Book, Want, Trash

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.249, Anchor

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• nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Games, Needs

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Art, Reading

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• Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.

  Timothy Zahn

  Block, Past, Three

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

  Alan Lightman

  Goodbye, Coffee, Passion

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