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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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• President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

  Jay Leno

  Children, School, Kids

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• I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

  Keith Jarrett

  Ideas, Musical, Keyboards

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• It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Land, Water, Energy

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

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• I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

  Amy Adams

  Want, Defeat, Chickens

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?

  Shantel VanSanten

  Mean, Airports, Long

  "'OTH' Star Shantel VanSanten Will Empower You!". The Insider Interview, www.yahoo.com. January 03, 2012.

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• Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass, and it translate to beef with broccoli. The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

  Bill Maher

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Character

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• I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Watches, Beef

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

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• The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

  Daniel Handler

  Dog, Smell, Helpful

  "Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  Larry Hagman

  Kale, Green, Cucumbers

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• Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

  Jackie French

  Book, Drag, Fascinating

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• Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

  Darius Rucker

  Rays, Beets, Biscuits

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

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• Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

  Dan Ariely

  Bread, Wonderful, Invention

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

  Clive James

  Hair, Tennis

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• Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand loyalty in beer makes no more sense than 'vegetable loyalty' in food. Can you imagine it? “No thanks, I'll pass on the mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and roast beef. Me, I'm strictly a broccoli man.'

  Stephen Beaumont

  Loyalty, Beer, Men

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• The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Sound, Sandwiches, Soup

  "Chris O'Dowd on the Genius of Christopher Guest, Working with James Franco, and Grafting". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.

  F. R. Leavis

  Doe, Fiction, Pages

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• I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Vegetables, Kitchen

  Corky Pollan, Lori Pollan, Dana Pollan, Tracy Pollan (2016). “The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

  Jared Polis

  Children, School, Support

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• By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

  John Cornyn

  Administration, Would Be, Cost

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• I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

  Debi Mazar

  Girl, Nice, Turkeys

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Turkeys, America

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• I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

  Alison Sweeney

  Kids, Vegetables, Asparagus

  "The Mommy Diet". Interview with Caylin Harris, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Self, Defense

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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