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• Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

  Garrison Keillor

  Different, Mediocrity, Pumpkin

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• I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.

  Steve Martin

  Dog, Done, Mouths

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• Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

  Johnny Carson

  Art, May, Faces

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Littles

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• We ought to make the pie higher.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Funny Bush

  "THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE DEBATES; The Evolution of Bush the Debater". www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2000.

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• To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

  Sarah Weeks

  Summer, Fun, Book

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• Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

  Kevin James

  Pain, Heart, Going Away

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• One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

  Chuck Barris

  Fourteen, Delicious, Pieces

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• A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Cat, Sunshine

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• Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

  Hilary Swank

  People, Baking, Knows

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• Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was disconnected from the living but could bring the dead back to life being a pie maker felt like I got the symbolism of food as life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Men, Symbolism, Sensual

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Weekend, Boston

  "The Real Tina Fey" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dog, Apples, Hot

  "The Colbert Report (Walter Kirn)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Oppression is as American as apple pie.

  Audre Lorde

  Apples, Apple Pie, Oppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.114, Crossing Press

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• Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

  Nigella Lawson

  Food, Want, Baking

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• As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Believe, Sky

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• Come with me if you want to live!

  Moses

  Want, Tough Guy, Sci Fi

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• My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Mom, People, Delicacy

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• I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Thinking, Choices

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

  Apples, Cheesy, Pessimistic

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• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Talking, Sky, Ideas

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• The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

  Michelle Obama

  Education, Giving Up, Order

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• I love you as New Englanders love pie!

  Don Marquis

  Love, Love You

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• I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  People, Guy, Growing

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Kissing, Clouds, Years

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.44, Zondervan

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