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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
Helen Rowland
Time
,
Heart
,
Trying
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
John Cleese
English
,
Cuisine
I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.
Hugh Jackman
Parents
,
Else
,
Everyone
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
Billy Corgan
Through
,
After
,
Wrong
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young
Remember
,
Sure
,
Sign
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
Marc Andreessen
Universe
,
Seems
,
System
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
Joni Mitchell
Dismiss
,
Block
,
Ellington
Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.
Gary Numan
Life
,
Sometimes
,
Pride
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
Jason Reitman
Character
,
Find
,
Away
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.
Julie Burchill
Beautiful
,
Heart
,
Long
I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.
Marissa Mayer
Women
,
Different
,
Sometimes
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
Ben Kingsley
Work
,
Help
,
Play
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Kevin J. Anderson
Everything
,
Remember
,
Memory
It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.
Emily Blunt
Nice
,
Big
,
Wrong
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
Pauline Hanson
Experience
,
Mother
,
Children
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
Bernard Williams
May
,
Fall
,
Hit
I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!
NeNe Leakes
Life
,
Car
,
Girl
There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.
Eric Stoltz
Time
,
Good
,
Money
You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.
Benicio Del Toro
Bad
,
Anyone
,
Might
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
Chaim Potok
Writing
,
Mean
,
Find
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.
Pauline Hanson
Job
,
Real
,
May
For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
Bill Keller
Time
,
Business
,
Heart
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle
Nature
,
Nothing
,
Place
Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Trying
,
Face
,
Everybody
There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.
Jessica Ennis
Good
,
Mind
,
Down
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
Tracy Morgan
Together
,
Kid
,
Daddy
The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson
Time
,
Done
,
Place
I have a huge chip on my shoulder.
Eric Church
Shoulder
,
Huge
It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.
Doug Flutie
Life
,
End
,
Football
Oh, gosh, okay... well, my biggest injury was probably a bone chip in my ankle that required surgery.
Trish Stratus
Biggest
,
Oh
,
Okay
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