Bakers Quotes

• My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strength, Wedding, Common Sense

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• My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

  Clay Pell

  Voting, Unions, Opponents

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Invisible Hand, Government

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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• I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

  David Niven

  School, Writing, Years

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

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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  Carla Bley

  Sophisticated, Mulligans, Wanted

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• Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Night Vision, Clear Vision, Vision

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• I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Play, Chuck

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• I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

  John Thaw

  Jobs, Couple, School

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• Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

  Lalla Ward

  Sick, Monsters, Favourite

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

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• The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

  Beau Bridges

  Boys, Hawaii, Pitching

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

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• It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, Believe, Cake

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

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• It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

  Honore de Balzac

  Father, Men, Would Be

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• I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

  Billy Corgan

  Teamwork, Thinking, Feet

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• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Men, Meat

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Winter, Bread

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

  LaToya Jackson

  Night, People, Feelings

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• There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

  Tim Robbins

  Dumb, Actors, Politician

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• The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

  Josephine Baker

  Beauty, Thinking, Secret

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• Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

  Josephine Baker

  Beauty, Beautiful, Luck

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• I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.

  Josephine Baker

  Attitude, Blow, Humanity

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• I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

  Josephine Baker

  Courage, Thinking, Two

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• If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Heaven, Bread

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• I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

  Louise Jameson

  Witty, Fun, Years

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• Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

  Josephine Baker

  Mean, Equality, Men

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