Nancy Mitford Quotes
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
Nancy Mitford
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
Indra Nooyi
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
Victoria Osteen
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Photographing a cake can be art.
Irving Penn
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
Nicki Minaj
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All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.
Betty MacDonald
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
Larry Ellison
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell
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Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
Nancy Mitford
