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• Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Easter, Food

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.129, Vintage

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• Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

  Russell Green

  Horse, Waiting, Heaven

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• Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

  Tao Lin

  Cake, People, Easy

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• The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

  Alan Cohen

  Adventure, Journey, Yield

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• I like girls who eat carrots.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girl, One Direction

  "GQ&A: One Direction". Interview with Kevin Perry, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. March 29, 2012.

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• If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Grateful, Way, Soil

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

  Marian Keyes

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.216, Penguin UK

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• Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

  Nick Rahall

  Intelligent, People, Goal

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• Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Book, Giving, Way

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 68, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  Victoria Moran

  Mushrooms, Kitchen, Tomatoes

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• I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

  Liam Neeson

  Onions, Dinner, Odd

  "Liam Neeson's 'wolf stew' claims land The Grey in hot water with Peta" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

  Martin Mull

  Dream, Reality, People

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• Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

  Dennis Miller

  Rivers, Dresses, Needs

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.90, Main Street Books

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• But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Stars, Food, Vintage

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• I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

  Jean Dujardin

  Garden, Names, House

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

  Lawrence Korb

  Kuwait, Giving, Grew

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• Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

  Christopher Buckley

  Reading, Men, Giving

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• Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

  Rip Taylor

  Advice, Should, Ran

  "Rip's Entertainment!". Interview with Paisley Yankolovich, www.emol.org.

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• Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

  Tom Cole

  Phones, Use, Interviews

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• Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

  Carrot Top

  People, Nicknames, Call Me

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Government, Sticks, Congress

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• When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hate, Men, Years

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

  Winston Churchill

  Sticks, Hills, Nazi

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.

  Nadia Giosia

  Baby, Chocolate, Scratches

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