"There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem……" — Sarah Vowell
"There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us."
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81 Quotes by Sarah Vowell
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin…
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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More Apples Quotes
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done…
— Bjork
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I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another…
— Lewis Black
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I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have…
— Mary J. Blige
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole…
— Johnny Cash
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
— Red Barber
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