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• I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

  David Chipperfield

  Engineering, Years, Design

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
  While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
  Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
  In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  Eminem

  Christian, War, Rap

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

  T. S. Eliot

  Strength, Ice, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Birthday, Daughter, Mother

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• You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

  Carolyn Wells

  Happy, Fun, Halloween

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• Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

  Robert Zoellick

  Growth, Climate, Development

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• You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake. You know you smoke way too much f--king weed!

  Miley Cyrus

  Weed, Bob, Marley

  "Miley Cyrus' Remarks at her Birthday Celebration Fuel New Publicity Scandal" by Lauren Schutte, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 28, 2011.

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• In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, "Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl."

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls". Book by David Sedaris, April 23, 2013.

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• I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those five times...I'd fall in love with the same person.

  Tite Kubo

  Teacher, Sweet, Falling In Love

  "Bleach". Manga by Tite Kubo, 2001 - 2016.

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• "Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Home, Mean, Grandmother

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• My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

  Molly Sims

  Birthday, Mom, Scratches

  "Molly Sims: Fab for fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

  Victoria Finlay

  Children, Loss, Caring

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.152, Ballantine Books

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• In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

  David Walliams

  Nice, Eggs, Space

  "Mr. Stink". Book by David Walliams, www.mirror.co.uk. 2009.

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• You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

  Paula Deen

  Pieces, Whole, Diabetes

  "Paula Deen Cooks Up Controversy with Diabetes Revelation". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

  Marie Antoinette

  People, Wife, Bread

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• To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Ideas, Paper, Painting

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• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

  Georgette Heyer

  Witty, Fun, Husband

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• Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'...
  Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'...
  Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'...
  Now take your lady to the world's fair (...)
  And do the 'rag time dance.'

  Scott Joplin

  Rags, World, Way

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• When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Weight, Firsts

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Running, Mistake, Trying

  Song: Still Alive

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• Every job after the first job I got was icing on the cake. This is so much fun.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Jobs, Fun, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Government, Available

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• Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Ideas, Chocolate

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Girl, Car, Guy

  "2 States: The Story of My Marriage". Book by Chetan Bhagat, October 8, 2009.

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