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• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Assumption, Cop

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Jesus, Blue, Denim

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• My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

  Sara Blakely

  Sweet, Husband, Night

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kiwi, Fruit, Over It

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• My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

  Chris Brown

  Basketball, Jobs, Home

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• When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

  James Buchan

  Book, London, Modern

  "Judgment Day... again" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

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• You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

  Sandra Bullock

  Looks, Idiot, Ifs

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• I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Light, Oil

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Party, Mean

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• I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

  J. Cole

  Nice, Long, Tails

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Hair, Years, Bangs

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• A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Guy, Influence, Arthur

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

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• I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that.

  Drake

  Knows, Ifs

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• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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• Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

  Paul Engle

  July, Precious Stones, Envy

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• As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

  Nick Ferguson

  Football, Monday, Halloween

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• I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

  Ina Garten

  Thoughtful, Chemistry, Shows

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• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Beautiful, People, Culture

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• As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

  Matt Groening

  Important, Followers, Hell

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• My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

  Alex Haley

  Men, Roots, Yellow

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• Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

  Mia Hamm

  Long, Healthy, Dinner

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• James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Mean, Perfect, Example

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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