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Canned music is like audible wallpaper. -- Alistair Cooke
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. -- John Kennedy Toole
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. -- Michael Stipe
We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects. -- Serge Schmemann
We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects." -- Serge Schmemann
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast. -- Jeffrey Kluger
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating. -- Paul Merton
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. -- John Avlon
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. -- Dwight Yoakam
I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. -- Deb Caletti
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. -- Ralph Bakshi
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. -- Michael Stipe
I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford. -- Lee Iacocca
If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars. -- Nouriel Roubini
I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. -- Henry Rollins
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. -- Katie Price
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? -- Billy Joel
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. -- Russell Baker
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. -- Aleister Crowley
Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work. -- Nancy Duarte
I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway. -- John Shelton Reed
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do. -- Alton Brown
All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally. -- Todd English
As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year. -- Amy J. Berg
Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie. -- Marcus Samuelsson
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans. -- Jim Crace
I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. -- Eliza Coupe
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. -- Joy Davidman
Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup? -- Mort Sahl
Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. -- Saul Bellow
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.... -- David Stockman
If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. -- Takeshi Kaneshiro
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. -- Michael Lewis
We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land. -- Si Robertson
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. -- Charlie Chaplin
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. -- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food. -- Deepak Chopra
I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator? -- Victor Borge
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books. -- Lois Lowry
The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health. -- David Reuben
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked? -- Frederic Raphael
People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is. -- Marilyn Manson

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