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Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country. -- Mitt Romney
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. -- John Lawson
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. -- Brittany Howard
Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple. -- Alison Moyet
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. -- Jonathan Cain
You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple. -- Kat Graham
Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers. -- Nina Garcia
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi. -- Ferran Adria
I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly. -- James Badge Dale
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. -- Quentin Tarantino
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement. -- James T. Walsh
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest. -- Mark Gatiss
It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops. -- David F. Houston
I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner. -- Jim Lee
The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. -- Charles Sturt
A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. -- Christian Siriano
Who the hell ever dreamed up a tie? It's just such a weird idea, and yet it has been literally hanging around forever as the one constant and boring men's fashion staple. -- Mark McKinnon
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. -- Diane Abbott
Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create. -- Steve Aoki
I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it. -- Debbie Allen
As for what I might wear, my mantra is that, no matter how chic the event, I don't want to look too prim. I like wearing short cocktail frocks to black-tie events; it just always feels more like me, and a bright red lip is always a staple. -- Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. -- Louise Brown
I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken. -- Victoria Justice
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up. -- Taylor Schilling
I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up! -- Candace Cameron Bure
Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine. -- Sherri Shepherd
I bring the staple of my culture. -- Erykah Badu
I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life. -- Scott Greenstein
I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me. -- Drake
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate. -- Rett MacPherson
If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall. -- Myra McEntire
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. -- Evelyn Waugh
Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church. -- Alistair Begg
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. -- Marie Brennan
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork. -- Al Yankovic
I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in. -- Padma Lakshmi
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -- William Shakespeare
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options. -- Jeremy Jackson
Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world. -- Auguste Escoffier
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? -- James Lee Burke
I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school. -- Sherri Saum
Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes. -- Ian Astbury
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. -- Ed Rollins
High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail. -- Chicken John
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. -- Ambrose Bierce
Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately. -- Dave Douglas
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. -- Paul Fry
A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it. -- Mara Brock Akil
We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked. -- Johnny Carson
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. -- David McCullough
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. -- John Holdren
Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth. -- Pauly Shore
A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family. -- Tommy Hilfiger
Hotness to me is scary. I don't want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that's trusted. -- Tyra Banks
I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it. -- Daniel Tosh
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. -- Thomas Keneally
I always have a pair of Ray-Bans in my bag and lots of pairs at home because they seem to go missing. They're a real staple. -- Kate Moss
I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S. -- John Doerr
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here. -- Emily Dickinson
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce. -- Ogden Nash
Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas. -- Christine Feehan
Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us. -- Robert Lustig
No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. -- Timothy White
Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have a choice but to eat vegetables. -- Don Thompson
We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking. -- John Burroughs
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects. -- Catherine Wilson
Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) -- Robin R. Meyers
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table. -- Shane Claiborne
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. -- Benjamin Cheever
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails. -- Jamake Highwater
Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) -- Robin R. Meyers
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them. -- Lorene Scafaria
The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels. -- Jeremiah Brent
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form. -- George Vecsey
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. -- Jason Scott
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. -- Jason Scott
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates. -- Michael Musto
Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food. -- Peter York

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