Chips Quotes - Page 7

• I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

  Emily Blunt

  Yoga, Alaska, Class

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• Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Champion, Gentleman, Atheism

  Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

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• I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

  Erin Andrews

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Expectations

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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• Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.

  Zig Ziglar

  Winning, Leader, Motivated

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• Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Writing, Engineering, Bridges

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• Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.

  Missy Giove

  Sports, Country, Beer

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• Having a Southwest Green in my backyard is a huge advantage for me on tour. I am pleasantly surprised just how true the ball rolls and reacts to chip and pitch shots. I love my Southwest Green.

  Jim Furyk

  Backyards, Balls, Green

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• Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

  John Oliver

  Chocolate, Cookies, Want

  "8 Myths About Native Advertising That Are Almost Entirely Untrue". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

  Helen Fielding

  White, Beef, Tomatoes

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Christmas, Thinking, People

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• We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

  Irving Kaplansky

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

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• I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Dream, Hands, Soul

  Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

  Sara Paretsky

  Food, Peanut Butter, Comfort

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

  Kate Bush

  Plutonium, Twinkling, Lungs

  Song: Breathing, Album: Never For Ever, 1980

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• I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.

  Helen Fielding

  Order, White, Tomatoes

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• The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.

  Mark Bittman

  Fake, Healthy, Alternatives

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.98, Clarkson Potter

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• My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

  Amarillo Slim

  My Favorite, Disappear, Tricks

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• I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.

  Chris Alexander

  Thinking, People, Criminals

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

  Michael Owen

  Team, Together, Down And

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• And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Smart, Kids

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, People, Matter

  "Five Joan Rivers quotes working women should live by" by Harriet Minter, www.theguardian.com. September 05, 2014.

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• I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

  Paul Daniels

  Sex, Viagra, Beats

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• I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

  Derrek Lee

  Basketball, Blue, Felt

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