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Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst. -- Matt Czuchry
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. -- Billy Carter
The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. -- Dustin Clare
And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast -- Jennifer McMahon
The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country. -- Michael Haneke
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't. -- James Surowiecki
I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm. -- Ryan Lewis
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. -- Robert Benchley
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. -- Anzia Yezierska
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. -- Dennis Rodman
I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things. -- Barbara Mandrell
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. -- Lynn Abbey
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it. -- Eric Stoltz
When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment. -- Alexandra Stoddard
I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. -- Jim Carrey
I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with. -- Scott Walker
I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. -- Frank Abagnale
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. -- Howard Dean
When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress. -- Hillary Clinton
A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon. -- Seth Shostak
What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight. -- Seth Shostak
If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again. -- Tom Waits
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why! -- Jessica Brown Findlay
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. -- Ronald Frame
On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college. -- Jeff Kinney
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized Jersey cow across a stage in front of an audience with judges, and maybe the cow even twirls around a couple of times. Then the winning cow gets a satin ribbon draped over it, which has the title and the year on it. -- Sherry Argov
Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder. -- Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy. -- Sarah Addison Allen
The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas. -- Fall Out Boy
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. -- Orson Welles
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. -- Andre Breton
The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of. -- Brenna Yovanoff
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. -- Anne Lamott
Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best. -- Mark LaMoure
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Pink ribbon scarsThat never forgetI've tried so hardTo cleanse these regretsMy angel wingsWere bruised and restrainedMy belly stings" -- Billy Corgan
Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk -- Maggie Stiefvater
...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. -- Alice Hoffman
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. -- Miriam Schapiro
Being first at the sound of the gun does not necessarily mean being first at the ribbon of victory -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Develop yourself from practice, to become exceptional. Raise your standards and be the best. -- Mark F. LaMoure
No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. -- Anne Lamott
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Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out. -- Matt Taibbi
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter. -- Stephen Fry
In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits? -- Olivia Wilde
Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Have high standards and work to be exceptional. Develop yourself from practice to be a winner at what you do. -- Mark F. LaMoure
I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her. -- Cynthia Nixon
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it." -- Eric Stoltz
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me. -- Woody Guthrie
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. -- J. K. Rowling
I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had. -- Hank Stuever
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. -- Christopher Moore
When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last. -- Kabir Sehgal
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake. -- Darynda Jones
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon. -- Edna Ferber
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side. -- Cassandra Clare

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