"When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge."
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"I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will."
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"The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong."
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"I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair."
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"I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that."
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"If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell."
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"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."
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"There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things."
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"Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split."
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"A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left."
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"Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg."
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"Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked."
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
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"Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs."
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"It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it."
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"I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know."
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"Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table."
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"It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."
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"It will be seen in the frying of the eggs."
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"Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world."
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