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• When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Thinking, Lunch, Water

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City. The traditional meal often includes gefilte fish. For those of you who don't know what gefilte fish is, it strongly resembles a ball of tuna fish that has been passed nasally. It's not good. During Passover, the angel of death passed over the Jews - an event that, up until the late 1950s, was re-enacted every year by Ivy League colleges and suburban country clubs.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, Angel

  "Other News - Yeast of Burden". "The Daily Show" official website, March 31, 1999.

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• I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Sweet, Powerful, Home

  "Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel". Book by Gary Shteyngart, July 27, 2010.

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• So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.

  Alex Timbers

  Fun, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  Alex Timbers

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

  Daniel Pauly

  Tuna Fish, Sushi, Driving

  "The Perils Of Overfishing, Part 2". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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• Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Rights, Elephants

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• To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sandwiches, Norm, Walter Mondale

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• I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.

  Alex Timbers

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think it all started with the tuna sandwich, and then, on the road, gearing up for New York, Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] had the idea of having a tuna puppet, which became Tony Tuna, and their friend Cammi Upton designed that and did a great job.

  Alex Timbers

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sharks, Names

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.

  Kathy Freston

  Home, Tuna Fish, Six Months

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• You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Thinking, Want

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• Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

  Damon Albarn

  Perfect, People, Sandwiches

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Friday, Sunday, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Swimming, Blue

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• I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

  Penny Lancaster

  Understanding, Healthy, Levels

  "Penny Lancaster & Rod Stewart Open Up About Infertility". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Kings, Crazy

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• Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?

  Rick Riordan

  June, Two, Battle

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Easter, Sunday, Dark

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• There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Ocean, Taken, Blue

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

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• Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Tuna Fish, Nuts

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.77, Pushkin Press

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• Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

  Augusten Burroughs

  White, Would Be, Fabric

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.31, Macmillan

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• You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Tuna Fish, Giving

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• When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Player, Coaching

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