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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. -- James Goldsmith
I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn." -- Henny Youngman
I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. -- Jon Stewart
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. -- Orson Welles
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. -- Stephan Pastis
As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me. -- Matt Groening
I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M -- Charles M. Schulz
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. -- Robert E. Lee
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous. -- Alicia Witt
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous. -- Alicia Witt
I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined. -- Brian Pinkerton
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything. -- Stephan Pastis
Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics? -- Stephan Pastis
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. -- Douglas Adams
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I. -- Lev Yilmaz
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.' -- Lev Yilmaz
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years. -- Jeff Kinney
My mind reels with sarcastic replies. -- Charles M. Schulz
Peanut butter is the pate of childhood. -- Florence Fabricant
You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. -- Kate DiCamillo
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charles M. Schulz
God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything. -- Mark Lowry
Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't. -- Edna Ferber
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich. -- Charles M. Schulz
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate. -- Charles M. Schulz
Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it. -- Bobby Flay
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. -- Billy Joel
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream. -- Barry Goldwater
When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. -- David Letterman
I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter. -- Janet Evanovich
Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses! -- Roger Caras
I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there. -- Evan Peters
You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? -- Betty Friedan
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me. -- George Washington Carver
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together. -- Walt Disney
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys. -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. -- Tyra Banks
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla. -- Tom Waits
Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes. -- Mike Ditka
If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job. -- Lindsay Fox
We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn. -- Steve Lacy
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. -- Graham Coxon
I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to. -- Joanna Lumley
As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts. -- Julie Klausner
My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift. -- Sherri Shepherd
When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre. -- Andre Leon Talley
I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19. -- Sonam Kapoor
For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness. -- Seth
Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books. -- Nathan Myhrvold
If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts. -- Del Shannon
Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party. -- Julia Child
If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys. -- Hannibal
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Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure. -- Nicholas Sparks
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little. -- Bobby Jones
I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia. -- Jimmy Carter
Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours. -- Ruta Sepetys
Chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate covered pretzels... Chocolate. So afraid to be alone. -- Dana Gould
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. -- Mickey Spillane
Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted. -- Tommy Cooper
I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme! -- Jim Gaffigan
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts. -- Raymond Chandler
You don't get married to get sex. Getting married to get sex is like buying a 747 to get free peanuts. -- Jeff Foxworthy
They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in. -- Muhammad Ali
I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts. -- Johnny Depp
Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain. -- Tupac Shakur
Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it? -- Garrison Keillor
All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts. -- Hubert Green
Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage! -- Murray Leinster
Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside. -- Janet Evanovich
I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man. -- Kurt Cobain
If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake -- Meles Zenawi
I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies. -- John Chaney
This year, U.S. airlineswill carry a record 143 million passengers, who will be in the air for 382 million hours, during which they will be fed an estimated total of four peanuts. -- Dave Barry
Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that. -- Corinne Maier
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. -- Zadie Smith
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it? -- Sue Monk Kidd
Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you have to hunt for them. And when you find one, you savor it. -- Mark R. Woodward
I will tell you, running for President, the money I spent is peanuts compared to the money I won't make. And that's O.K. because this is so important. What I'm doing is so important. -- Donald Trump
I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs. -- Henry Rollins

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