"A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time."
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"In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking."
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"I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him."
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"Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within."
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"They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more."
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"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."
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"Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?"
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"What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things."
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"You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do."
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"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
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"Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed."
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"I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it."
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"What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy."
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"As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God."
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"What most we wish, with ease we fancy near."
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"Do not let fancy outrun your means."
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"Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy."
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"We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly."
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"Those playful fancies of the mighty sky."
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"It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets."
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