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"The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
"Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish."
"It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken"
"Anyone can make a good roast chicken."
"In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch."
"Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch."
"It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage."
"I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman."
"The sun's not yellow, its chicken!"
"I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]"
"When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination."
"The egg cackles and lays the chicken."
"I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized."
"On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love."
"Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once."
"Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another."
"She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."
"If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it."
"There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge)."
