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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.
Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.
One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis.
I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, 'Which way?'
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
I'm a butcher champ, I don't care what I eat, I don't care what I cut, I just want to get cutting.
I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.
In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
In the past, we had several dog butcher shops in Cheongnyangni, but I closed almost all of them down through various measures.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.
He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.
My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs - basically, the matches that went all over the building.
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.
For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
I once hosted the Butcher Shop of the Year Awards. There's nothing like performing to the personification of the phrase a 'sausage fest' to hammer home how you've hit the big time.
I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force.
Why crown your own rack of pork when a butcher could do it for you? To start, it's way easier to brine two individual racks than a giant round crown (and yes, you definitely want to brine the meat).
I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'