Bananas Quotes - Page 9

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

George Ayittey

People, Republic, Might

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Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

Ed Seykota

Pride, Emotional, Greed

"Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

Bill Bryson

Years, Vegetables, Profound

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We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

Jill McCorkle

Children, Silly, Kids

Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

Leo Buscaglia

Love, Choices, Doe

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Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

Alex Ferguson

Inspirational, Winning, Way

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As a World-trekker, go-getter
Retirement won't have you stopping
You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from
At the supermarket....doing the shopping

John Walter Bratton

Retirement, Shopping, Stopping

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It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

Rachel

Scratches, Beef, Jam

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I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

Jimmy Page

Trying, Looks, Mosques

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You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?

Noel Fielding

Eggs, Black, Tarantulas

"The Mighty Boosh". www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2007.

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People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Chris Farley

Average, People, Laughing

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana-nut. That's a good muffin.

Nicolas Cage

Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

Paul Keating

Government, Australia, Done

Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

Judd Gregg

Sorry, Years, Political

"'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.

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You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

John Diefenbaker

Canada, Parliament, Backbone

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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Terry Pratchett

Stars, Circles, Magic

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

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Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

Thomas Sowell

Latin, Media, Leader

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

Noel Gallagher

Girl, Winning, Class

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He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War, Enough, Slaughter

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When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

Charlie Munger

People, Shortage, Capitalism

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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

Regina Spektor

Fun, Book, Kids

Source: www.npr.org

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Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Ryan Lochte

Jumping, Pops

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I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.

Brian Littrell

Home, School, Years

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My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

Jennifer Hudson

Control Myself, House, Devil

"Jennifer Hudson: This Girl is on Fire". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. November 13, 2012.

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Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Rush Limbaugh

Thinking, Government, President

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