Chickens Quotes - Page 37

• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Kings, Nice, Greed

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

  Larry McMurtry

  Texas, Degenerates, Eating

  Larry McMurtry (1983). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”

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• Creativity is like chasing chickens.

  Christoph Niemann

  Creativity, Chasing

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• The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Views, Lasts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.123, Routledge

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• The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Reading, Keys

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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  Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

  Dick Gregory

  White, People, Lasts

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

  Isabel Allende

  Whole, Feathers

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• Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

  Kyle Petty

  Lazy, Racing, Nascar

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• I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  Alison Sweeney

  Vegetables, Snacks, Lunch

  "Alison Sweeney's Stay-Slim Secrets". Interview with Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. August 13, 2011.

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• I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

  Chris Evans

  Believe, Play, America

  "Chris Evans in Costume as Captain America!" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.

  Paul Walker

  People, Sometimes

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• Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

  Susan Orlean

  Animal, Water, I Have Learned

  "Chicken Chores" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2011.

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• When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Powerful, Intelligent, Laughing

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• We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

  Michael Pollan

  Skills, People, Example

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Believe, Men, Nuts

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• If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mother, College, Kiev

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• At the end of the day, yes. It's all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But intramuscular fat, that's where you get a lot of flavor. Fat carries the flavor but in the last 50 years it's been bred out of pigs. When American chicken exploded in the 70's and became such a huge commodity, it took away pork sales. The pork industry suffered and had to change.

  Dan Barber

  Pigs, Years, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.starchefs.com

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Race

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different.

  Paul Rankin

  Awards, Connections, Different

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

  Bob Inglis

  Funny, Humor, Term Limits

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• Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

  Robin Cook

  Dishes, British

  "Robin Cook's chicken tikka masala speech". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2001.

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• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  Joel Robuchon

  Eggs, Sides, Comfort

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• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Ducks, Guarantees

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