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  Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Liberty, Debt

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

  Kid Rock

  Next, Hours, Minutes

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 15, 2014

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• Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

  David Brin

  Failing, Cream, Subtlety

  David Brin (2009). “The Uplift War”, p.58, Spectra

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• I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hair, Talking, Rabbits

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  Ed Sheeran

  Tattoo, New York, Couple

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

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• Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.

  Yogi Berra

  Cutting, Thinking, Eight

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• Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Heat, Kind

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “To the Nines”, p.125, Macmillan

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• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  Orson Welles

  College, Today, Mud

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• In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.

  Kimberly Schlapman

  Baby, Jobs, Feel Better

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Want, Information, Gains

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• You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

  Emma Thompson

  Satisfaction, Faces, Imagine

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• I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Humble, Appreciate, Taste

  "Humble Pie: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Strong, Talking, Smell

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• How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Meat, Fruit, Moments

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.75, Penguin

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• Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

  Jay Inslee

  Apples, Tolerance, Selected

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• The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

  Sid Caesar

  Kids, Rude, Watches

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

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• Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Dust, Mud

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• Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Dream, Home, Motherhood

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• Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

  Colin Baker

  Secret, Weight, Pork

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• Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

  L. J. Smith

  Mom, Apples, Romance

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• If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Giving, Enough

  Interview with Oprah, www.oprah.com. February 2003.

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• The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Rocks, Wwe, Eyebrows

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• You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Hate, Cutting, Worry

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• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Country, Ice Cream

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

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• Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

  Austin O'Malley

  Sermons

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