Chips Quotes

• If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, America, United States

  Televised speech announcing offensive into Cambodia, 30 Apr. 1970

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• I really love the karate thing I did on CHIPs. I studied with a trainer because I knew we'd do episodes that had karate.

  Erik Estrada

  Karate, Episodes, Trainers

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• Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

  Brigham Young

  Forgiveness, Attitude, Opportunity

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• If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Play, Fish Tanks, Three

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

  Billy Corgan

  Want, Sides, Process

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• We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Who We Are, Today

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• If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Might

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• Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

  Helen Rowland

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Men

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Institutions, I Can

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• I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

  Tracey Emin

  Sorry, Apology, Fish Tanks

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• When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

  Barbara Boxer

  People, Political, May

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• Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

  Jim Bishop

  Chocolate Ice Cream, Cows, Mint

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• I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

  Tyra Banks

  Positive, Food, Junk

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• My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

  Pauline Hanson

  Mother, Running, Children

  "The Brexit factor: Why one in four voters abandoned the major parties". "Background Briefing" with David Lewis, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2016.

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• If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Real, Design

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• I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

  Ryan Lochte

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Eating

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• The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Ability, Carpenter, Carpentry

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

  Sara Bareilles

  Cupboards, Tendencies, Stuck

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

  John Hancock

  Attitude, Liberty, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  People, Wonder, Shoulders

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• If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

  Scott McNealy

  Brother, Children, Father

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• Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Looks

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• Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Style, Fasting

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• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Blessed, Writing, Criticism

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.25, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

  Wilford Brimley

  Enough

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