"All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk."
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"The skin is forming because of proteins, just like if you cook milk or anything else that's got a coagulant protein in it."
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"We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!"
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"You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home"
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"There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger."
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"The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one."
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"As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere."
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"The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language."
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"Milk are for babies, when you get older you drink beer."
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"I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for."
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"My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then."
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"People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk."
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"It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!"
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"Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own."
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"Mother's milk leads to everything."
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"I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth."
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"I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism."
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"I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know."
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