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• Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Girl, Taken, Home

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• Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, announced he's running for president. Before he announced he's running, his wife went on Facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. Because if a Facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Rhode Island, Islands

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• For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
  And hold-fast is the only dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Prudence

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

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• Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Drama, Passion, Want

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• I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

  Barack Obama

  War, Cutting, Giving

  "Remarks at an Obama Victory Fund 2012 Fundraiser in Baltimore, Maryland". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 12, 2012.

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• British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

  Nigel Slater

  Sweet, Hug, Comfort

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• Last night, I went to a birthday party, and this girl brought a cake and a cheesecake. And the other girls that lived in the apartment, I swear to God, all night long: 'You're taking that cake with you when you go. That cake's not staying in this house.' Like it's this evil, Hope Diamond, nuclear, horrifying cursed thing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Girl, Party, Night

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• the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Holiday, Fruit, Made

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• The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Skills, Naked, Pieces

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• In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

  Christopher Titus

  Party, Mean, Normal

  "Titus / The Surprise Party". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.

  Vijay Singh

  Winning, Play, Icing

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• White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, White, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Feelings, Recipes, Lasts

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• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Reading, Soul, Gardening

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1854). “Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix”, p.7

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• Donald Trump is going to make an announcement about running for President on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. Not to be outdone, the same night the Cake Boss will reveal his plan for overhauling Medicare.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Night, Boss

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• I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Real, Play, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Stupid, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake. And then strangers would see a long haired guy and say, "That guy eats cake!" "He is on bundt cake!" Mothers saying to their daughters, "Don't bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flour. Did you see how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Daughter, Mother

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• For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Listening

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• Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Fire

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• I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch something on my birthday. I don't want it to be from the cake. If you know what I'm saying.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, My Birthday

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• TLC should stand for Toddlers, Lunatics, and Cake.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor, Toddler

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2011

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• Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.

  Lindsey Graham

  Couple, Gay, Islam

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, www.cbsnews.com. September 16, 2015.

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• Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

  Sally Field

  Chocolate, Awful, Jerk

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 16, 2012.

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• I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, White

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