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When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.
John Goodman / Actor
Kids
Popeye
Real
Old Ones
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The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
Daniel Cormier / Mixed Martial Artist
Louisiana
Popeye
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I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Cows
Popeye
Spinach
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I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'
Ruskin Bond / Author
Comic
Popeye
Bailey
Beetle
Liked
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E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.
Charles Forsman /
Popeye
Cartoonists
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
Daniel Cormier / Mixed Martial Artist
Beans
Grew
Louisiana
Popeye
Red
Rice
Corner
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Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.
Gil Kane / Artist
Believable
Popeye
Tricky
Turning
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It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Chickens
Normal
Popeye
Chicken
Elf
Frankenstein
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
Magnus Scheving /
Models
Popeye
Realised
Role Models
Spinach
Eats
Hits
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A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
Colson Whitehead / Novelist
Misfits
Popeye
Spinach
Titles
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There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Animation
Popeye
Boy
Boom
Read
Disney
Influenced
Manga
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Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
Michael Greger / Physician
Dark
Green
Nutrition
Popeye
Spinach
Vegetables
Whole
Whole Foods
Most
Go
Calorie
Foods
Per
Offer
Planet
Right
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I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Confidence
Popeye
Spinach
Cabinet
Earned
Swallow
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I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in it. I don't like that kind of movie.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Direct
Popeye
Good Money Me
Million
Offered
Robert
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Having Fun
Popeye
Riding
Chain
Chicken
Something Else
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I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.
Jeff Koons / Artist
Ancient
Energy
Harem
Popeye
Male
Generation
Terms
Symbol
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I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Aunt
Children
Mum
Obsessed
Picky
Popeye
Spinach
Tunes
Aunts
Eater
Represent
Happily
Hum
Tune
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If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.
Elvis Mitchell / Film Critic
Disputes
Popeye
Time Good Better
Chunk
Depp
Johnny
Johnny Depp
Onscreen
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You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.
Mike Birbiglia / Comedian
Construction
Oil
Olive Oil
Perception
Popeye
Popular Culture
Sitcom
Cartoonish
Olive
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