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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten

Large, Dinner, Chicken

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Democratic, Habit, Societies

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke

Fun, High, Hunting

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Rich, Poor, Satan

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Donald Trump

Great, Trying, Country

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne

Exciting, Advantages, Constantly

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, Fear, Changes

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Everything, Destiny

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

Education, Best, Human

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr

Hope, Wonderful, Progress

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather

Today, Sunshine, Rainy

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov

God, Tell, Able

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette

Work, Good, Truth

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright

Friendship, Human, Person

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold

Father, Woman, Again

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
Jim Carrey

Time, Him, Said

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
Colin Powell

Saying, Progress, Defeat

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.
Roy Rogers

Today, Pictures, Trigger

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

Education, Learning, Training

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey

Love, Hard, Down

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Home, Terrible

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Words, Write

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter

Fear, Human, Mad

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Happy, May

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy

Success, Leadership, Good

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin Powell

Time, Decision, Two

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Jean Kerr

Best, Bad, Around

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou Holtz

Successful, Sacrifice, Find

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