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• The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

  Marian Burros

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Loser

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• I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Normal, Energetic

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.

  Wendy Farley

  Beauty And Love, Desire, Uniforms

  Wendy Farley (2005). “The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press

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• People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  Sue Grafton

  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

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• Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Flower, Remembrance, Earth

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• I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.

  Vaginal Davis

  Children, Men, Monsters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.

  Nikki Sixx

  Excess, Taste

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• Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Eerie, Old Habits, Next

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• In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.

  Henry Holmes Smith

  Photography, Past, World

  Henry Holmes Smith, James Enyeart (1986). “Henry Holmes Smith: collected writings 1935-1985”, Center for Creative Photography

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• If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I didn't consciously write the book with a particular moral intent. I took what I experienced and processed it through the sausage factory of fiction. It's up to readers to interpret what's on the page - as is the case with any novel.

  Dave Abrams

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Musical, Great Music, Periods

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I'm very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.

  Edward Hirsch

  Gratitude, Thinking, August

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Theatre, Culture

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sauce, Cheese, Eating

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• [My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Diversity, Doe, Culture

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, White, Healthy

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we speak of the market system. That is a nice bland expression, which forgets those off-color references.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Nice, Expression, Color

  Source: progressive.org

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• Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

  Rick Santorum

  Careers, Boring, Politician

  "Santorum Revives Bush Coalition" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.

  Torquil Campbell

  Achievement, Obstacles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
  You may get a bland smile from these sages;
  But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
  Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cracks, Wages, Crowns

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kissing, Hands, Trying

  1889 The Gondoliers, act 2.

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• I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Cake, Bread

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Sep 28, 2013

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• People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.

  Rob Zombie

  Tv Shows, People, Albums

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Dark, Dust

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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