Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
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Parrots
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot"
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"I'm going back to my parrot head friends."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
Brion James
Actor
"I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it."
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"A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage."
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"The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion"
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"What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that."
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