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• At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Meals, Bags

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• I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Vines, Looking Forward

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• It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

  Mick Jagger

  Real, People, Fool

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

  Nigel Slater

  Paris

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• We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

  Alice Cooper

  Healthy, Psychological, Reactions

  Interview with Mike Quigley for Poppin (Canada's rock culture magazine published in Vancouver), www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

  Kim Harrison

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

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• In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

  Stephen Moyer

  Garden, Tree, Green

  "Rachael Ray Every Day" interview, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

  Michael Lewis

  Risk, Clients, Management

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.232, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Food, Vegetables, Nuts

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  Frances Mayes

  Land, Car, Yards

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

  Mario Batali

  Cutting, Eggplant, Soul

  "Making a Meal with Mario Batali". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 15, 2005.

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• You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

  David Letterman

  Would Be, Firsts, Lettuce

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• The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, California, Perfect

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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• The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

  Kristin Cashore

  Garden, Trust Me, Stakes

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.108, Penguin

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• Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Mean, Kids

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• If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

  Julia Child

  Smell, Should Have, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Russia, Sun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  War, Live For Today, Dollars

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 119, 1987.

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• I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

  Celine Dion

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Hands, Faces

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• If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

  Alton Brown

  Sleep, Vegetables, Law

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2011

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• My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

  Brian Andreas

  Grandma, Italian, Tin Cans

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