Marilyn Wallace
Author
"once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore."
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Jam
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Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"There's no traffic jam on the extra mile."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile."
Italo Calvino
Writer
"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything."
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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."
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"I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam."
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"That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave."
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"My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over."
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"Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish."
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"Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam."
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"If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves."
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"I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects."
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"There's gonna be all the twists and turns you would expect and twists and turns you did not expect. The finale is probably the most jam-packed episode there's ever been. Things are packed into it like sardines. All of the life is squeezed in there. They lengthened it to 90 minutes because there's just so much. It's a supersized monstrosity."
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"If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us."
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"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play."
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"I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders."
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"There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile."
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"I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly."
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"And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain."
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"From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that."
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"Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx."
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"If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment."
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"Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades."
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"I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else."
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