Plates Quotes - Page 24

• It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Plot, Steps, Realizing

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• My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

  Nicole Miller

  Mother, Fashion, Home

  "Nicole Miller in the Flesh". Interview with Fabiola Beracasa, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Korea, People

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces

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• I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Names, People

  "Can I be God for a little while?" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Creating, America

  "Obama urges climate action" by Elana Schor, www.politico.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

  Camilla Luddington

  Rushing, Leaving, Eating

  "Esquire + Me in My Place with Camilla Luddington". www.esquire.com. July 6, 2011.

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• "Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

  Victoria Moran

  Color, People, Tree

  "The Vibrant Vegan Life of an Obesity Survivor". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

  David Ortiz

  Trying, Quiet, Aggressive

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• With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

  Greg Lynn

  Thinking, Space, Design

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• I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.

  Danny Pino

  Jobs, New York, Stress

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• Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Journey, Long, Shells

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Muffins, Week

  George Bernard Shaw (1960). “Shaw, Plays by George Bernard”, Signet Classics

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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  James Woods

  Work, People, Steps

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• An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

  Arthur Eddington

  Stars, Science, Hypothesis

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

  Paul Prudhomme

  People, Comeback, Insult

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• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

  Alexander Fleming

  Fall, Science, Fog

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• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Inspiration, Color, Cnn

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• Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Culture

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• Whatever is on your plate got there because you said yes to it.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Said

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• It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.

  Mary Karr

  Football, Boys, Play

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.112, Penguin

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Missing, Bangs

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• The less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better.

  Peter Cheeke

  Meat, Consumers, Knows

  "Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture". Book by Peter Cheeke, 1993.

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• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Reality, People, Worry

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate® exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout.

  Maureen Lipman

  Workout, Exercise, Training

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