William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill."
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Cheese
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Jay London
Comedian
"My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."
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"I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c."
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"There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge."
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"Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working."
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"The misers cheese is wholesomest"
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"The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese."
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"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."
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"Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it."
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"I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!"
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"A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze."
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"I was blown up while we were eating cheese."
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"Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese."
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"God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!"
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"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly."
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"Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese."
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"all i want...is mac and cheese"
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"Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese."
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"Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese."
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"To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective."
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"Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!"
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"I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese."
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