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• I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

  Michelle Tea

  Running, Dream, Sweet

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• Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't.

  Trevanian

  Beer, Flying, Meat

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• My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Art, Sunday

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• I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

  Chris Rock

  Nice, Book, Tables

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• You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Air, Spinning Plates, Guy

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• What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Years, Next Year

  "Regrets? He's had a few ..." by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2006.

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• Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Looks, Glances

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophical, Littles, Way

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• Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

  Paul Lynde

  Food, Needs, Sandwiches

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• The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Doors, Knives

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.26, A&C Black

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• I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

  Jackie Chan

  Pops, Shoulders, Metals

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

  Nathan Fillion

  Nice, Ipods, Phones

  "Nathan Fillion Interview – WAITRESS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

  Bobby Flay

  Sweet, Nice, Holiday

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.

  Bobby Flay

  Trying, Tables, Rooms

  Bobby Flay (2007). “Bobby Flay's Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire!”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Change, Humor

  Song: Redneck Stomp

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• I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

  Lou Gehrig

  Differences, Long, Guy

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• I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

  Temple Grandin

  Years, Spinning Plates, Background Noise

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• Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

  Lee Haney

  Kids, Volunteer, Parent

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• I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Careers, Circus, Enjoy

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• If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

  James Lovelock

  Years, Evolution, Mechanic

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• I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

  Annie Lennox

  Want, Spinning, Different

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• I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sorry, Hands, Sound

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

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• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  Dolley Madison

  House, Wagons, Hours

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Artist, Hats

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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