"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies."
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"Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions."
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"In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
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"Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie."
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"You like pie? I like pie."
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"[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie."
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"Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die."
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"You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie."
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"Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie."
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"Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
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"God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve."
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"Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without nuclear weapons. Let me be practical about it. The knowledge is there to make them. So do not go too hard for that pie in the sky because, while everyone would like to see it, I do not believe it is going to come about."
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"If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay."
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"I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay. I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food. We don't have a "no junk food" rule - I just want them to think about their choices."
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"Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie."
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"A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible."
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"Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger."
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"A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze."
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