Turkeys Quotes - Page 4

• Times are hard in the ghetto, I gotta steal for a living;
  Eating turkey-flavored Now & Laters for Thanksgiving.

  DMX

  Rap, Ghetto, Hip Hop

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• The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Funny Thanksgiving, California

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• Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Race, Two, Upset

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.

  Erma Bombeck

  Magazines, Before And After, Size

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• On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

  George Carlin

  Food, Cooking, World

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

  Ronald Reagan

  Farmers, Detente

  Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, George P. Shultz, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

  John Hodgman

  Knives, Ham, Shapes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Italian, People

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2141, Delphi Classics

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• Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's external borders early on, but they languished in the Council for months. As you can see, the Commission isn't asleep. Oftentimes it has to wake up the others.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Europe, Borders

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Mother, Brother, Home

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• If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

  Alton Brown

  Evil, Waiting, Add

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• In any form or fashion, people are finding a way to inflict pain and sadness on people, on a daily basis. We have this situation in Turkey, we have this situation with ISIS, and we have our own internal fights within the United States.

  Edwin Hodge

  Fashion, Pain, Sadness

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Australia, People, Mexico

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• Wrap the turkey up
  In aluminum foil
  My brother likes to masturbate
  With baby oil.

  Adam Sandler

  Baby, Brother, Oil

  Song: The Thanksgiving Song Performed by Adam Sandler

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• Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.

  Adam Sandler

  Night, Long, Fans

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• I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

  Gayle King

  Growing Up, Father, Wings

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• I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

  John Lennon

  Running, Boys, Alcohol

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• For breakfast, I always have eggs - whole eggs. I think the fats are really important. I also like turkey bacon and really hearty whole-grain bread. I'm very picky about it. You need bread that's high in fiber and low in carbs. It's hard to find, but it's worth it.

  Summer Glau

  Thinking, Eggs, Important

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

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• Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Allies

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• I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

  Freema Agyeman

  Nice, Holiday, People

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• I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

  Navid Negahban

  Country, Iran, Germany

  "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Government, Agendas, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Roger Wicker

  Iraq, Allies, Example

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• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Iran, Important

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