Isaiah Mustafa
Actor
"I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch."
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Spices
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Melanie Chisholm
Singer, Songwriter
"Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges."
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
Bette Davis
Actress
"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
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"There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness."
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"I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me."
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"Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up."
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"We were the Spice Boys."
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"Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises."
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"He who controls the spice controls the universe."
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"Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man"
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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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"To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content."
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"Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice."
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"The world loves a spice of wickedness."
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"I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me."
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"I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain."
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"Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back."
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"A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising."
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"On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go."
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"I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness."
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"Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything."
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"I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry."
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"I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen."
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