164 Quotes About Turkeys

  • Author Kin Hubbard
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    A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

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  • Author Larry Hagman
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    But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

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  • Author Levon Helm
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    When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

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  • Author Nick Hornby
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    It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

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  • Author Simon Hoggart
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    I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

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  • Author William Hague
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    Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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  • Author Eddie Izzard
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    So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

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  • Author Ivan Illich
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    Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

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  • Author Carl Jung
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    I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

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