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- Nov 07, 2020
Chop Quotes
One word, several very different meanings.
This chop quotes collection ranges from the well-known Zen proverb about chopping wood and carrying water to a comedian's joke about cutting off a trouser leg. For more food-adjacent lines, see our Food quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started on the very first day with just one restaurant, we used to pick oregano off the stems and chop them. We still do that.
- Great
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I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.
- New
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When I'm away from New York, the thing I miss the most is the food. I miss going to my deli to get a pomegranate-flavored aloe water and a chop cheese. That's my favorite sandwich.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.
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