Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]"
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Nuts
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Rich Mullins
Musician
"I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree."
David Wolfe
Nutritionist
"Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food."
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"I'm a nut, but not just a nut."
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"My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers."
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"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground."
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"We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results."
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"The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him."
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"God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts"
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"Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh."
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"I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever."
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"When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut."
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"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
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"The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace."
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"I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets."
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"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
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"Love your enemies and drive them nuts."
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"Most people are really nuts and that's fascinating to me."
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"California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts - the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too."
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"Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'"
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"Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools."
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"I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
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