Betty MacDonald Quotes

Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.'

Betty MacDonald

• Female
• Recipe
• Dish
• Macaroni

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• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
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• People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

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• As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

  

  Danger Mouse
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• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
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• I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

  

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  • Way
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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
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• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
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• All my life, everything has been a contest.

  

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  • Life

• We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

  

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• A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • World
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• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

  

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• When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

  

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• I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

  

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• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

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• In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

  

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• On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

  

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• Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.'

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Female
  • Recipe
  • Dish