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• I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

  Xavier Cugat

  Inspirational, Swimming, Play

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!

  Donald Wildmon

  Scary, Movement, Causes

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• If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hands, Trying, Cold

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• He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Morning, War, Pirate

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

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• What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Breakfast, Shame, Eating

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• What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.

  Dianne Wiest

  Love Is, Chocolate, Peanut Butter

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• I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

  Stone Gossard

  Wheels, Cards, Could Have Been

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• and the bananas are overdone.

  Simone Elkeles

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Laughing, Slips

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.157, Random House

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• Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.

  Miles Teller

  Animal, Peeling, Planets

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• As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

  George A. Romero

  Wisdom, Pay, Julia

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• My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Feet, Acting, Belief

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• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  Christopher Meloni

  Funny, War, Thinking

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• I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  Candy Crowley

  Children, Healthy, Midwest

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Movie, Inspiring, Trying

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Morning, Kids

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• You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.

  Kevin Keegan

  Player, Like You, Bunch

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• The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Running, Years

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• Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

  Nicki Minaj

  Sides, Chimpanzees, Stride

  Song: Till The World Ends

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Men, Intelligent

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• Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Yellow, People

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Take Your God And Shove Him", www.youtube.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Erotic, Eating

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  Tarsem Singh

  Zoos, Want, Monkeys

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