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• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Eggs, Water, Bird

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• Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Long, Waiting

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• When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

  Penelope Cruz

  Firsts, Feels

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• I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

  Peter Tork

  Dave, Crosby, Stills

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• I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Should Have, Curls, Looks

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• Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

  Eric Sevareid

  Life, Television, Executives

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

  Robert Carlyle

  Who I Am, Balance, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

  Jodi Picoult

  Bars, Answers, Bartender

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

  William Jackson

  Years, Directors, Use

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• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Oil, Feelings

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• A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

  Nash Buckingham

  Hunting, Hands, Conservation

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• Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Men, Chinese

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

  George C. Wallace

  Lame, Politics

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• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

  Funny, Food, Hunting

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

  Jase Robertson

  Busy, Fishes, Hunts

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• Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy- then down the road we go.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Son, People

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Smell

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• There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.

  Gena Showalter

  Baby, Two, Voice

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• Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Nests

  "Difficult People". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• [W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Winter, Hunting

  "Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language" by Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. September 21, 2007.

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• What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

  Dave Barry

  Exactly Is, Data, Kazoos

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Swans, Ugly Duckling, Eggs

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.33

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Issues, Trying, Favors

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• Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bills, Canvas, Restaurants

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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