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Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle. -- Tim Gunn
I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music. -- Patty Griffin
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.
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
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life. -- Graham Hill
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
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
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
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
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
Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic. -- Paul Feig
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. -- Marshall McLuhan
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season. -- Matthew Williamson
There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet. -- Bentley Little
I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer. -- China Mieville
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. -- Brittany Howard
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. -- Ruth Ozeki
I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me. -- Stephanie McMahon
Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work. -- Kobe Bryant
I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one. -- Jacqueline Emerson
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got. -- Heidi Klum
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What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it. -- Kevin Connolly
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. -- Graham Chapman
The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. -- Arthur Smith
Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency. -- James E. Faust
As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact. -- Monique Coleman
As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact. -- Monique Coleman
I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense. -- Charlaine Harris
After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too. -- Holly Madison

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