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I like to peel oranges.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
I can chop and peel vegetables but can't cook full meals.
His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
When I was 17, I had to peel 100 kg of tomatoes every day.
I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.
That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
I like to peel it and share it with friends. You can spread the love with an orange.
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.
John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
When you look at the Earth's horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it's not even the thickness of an orange peel.
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.
I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.
Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.
Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.
Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.
I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.
Onion juice and peel applied to the face and scalp is a great natural detoxifier. I followed it for some time but it kills your social life! You can say I didn't find it very a-peeling.
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
I resent the label on cigarettes. If they're going to warn you, why don't they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway or on every banana that's sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.
Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.
For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.
Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.