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• This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

  Steve Jobs

  Light, Tea, Typical

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• I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.

  David

  Coffee, Writing, Boys

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Cheer

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

  Dolly Parton

  Work, Ambition, Kitchen

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• It ain't my cup of meat.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Meat

  Song: The Mighty Quinn, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

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• Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Fall, Future

  Song: Revelation, Album: Blizzard of Ozz

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• Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.

  Quincy Jones

  Attitude, Shoes, Shining

  "Quincy Jones Recalls 'Freaking Out' at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

  John Waters

  Friday, Monday, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• O love, whose lordly hand
  Has bridled my desires,
  And raised my hunger and my thirst
  To dignity and pride,
  Let not the strong in me and the constant
  Eat the bread or drink the wine
  That tempt my weaker self.
  Let me rather starve,
  And let my heart parch with thirst,
  And let me die and perish,
  Ere I stretch my hand
  To a cup you did not fill,
  Or a bowl you did not bless.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Heart, Wine

  "'Love' ('The Forerunner')". Poem by Khalil Gibran, gutenberg.net.au. 1920.

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• I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.

  Nick Vujicic

  Coffee, Two, Feet

  "Interview: Limbless Nick Vujicic on Secret of Being Joyful". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. December 4, 2010.

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• Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Air, Self

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• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Running, Pain, Delight

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.75

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• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Essence, Pleasure, Beads

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Sweet, Vanity

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.507

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• I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Night, Land

  John Quincy Adams, “The Wants Of Man”

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• In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable

  Roberto Di Matteo

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• After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

  Andrew Mehrtens

  Loss, World, Rugby

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• What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

  Esther Hautzig

  Morning, School, Plot

  Esther Hautzig (2002). “The endless steppe: with connections”, Holt McDougal

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• I'm not meant to run around trees. I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Running, Sweet, Air

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Simple, Thinking

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• And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

  Aeschylus

  Wine, Fate, Tears

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.86, Penguin

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• Starbucks is planning to close down all the restrooms in its New York locations. Which explains the most popular new Starbucks order: An empty cup.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Order, Location

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• Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

  Guy Lafleur

  Nice, Winning, Play

  "Guy Lafleur: The Last of the Great Habs Skaters". thehockeywriters.com. November 10, 2017.

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• Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.

  Eminem

  Dying, Sixty

  "Song: 'Underground'". 2009.

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