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My dad thought all wedding cakes should be white. Times have changed.


Francis Wollenzien

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MARLEN ESPARZA I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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DEREK LANDY Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eight or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice ...
DEREK LANDY It used to be that wedding gowns were primarily white.
CAMI HESTER Times have changed. The athletes have changed.
JOE NAMATH My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked ...
JOHN LASSETER I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
PARIS HILTON I have my grandma's cookie jar. The one I put my hand into as a child.
FRANCIS WOLLENZIEN Jane is in charge of the front end of the business.
FRANCIS WOLLENZIEN Buns and dinner rolls are made of the same dough. Only difference is the weight you scale it at.
FRANCIS WOLLENZIEN We do not use preservatives. I pretty much bake the same way my dad taught me.
FRANCIS WOLLENZIEN Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK It was my best match of the tournament. I thought I should have taken him down two or three times.
RYAN GOODMAN My Dad was a white man in a black skin.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expec...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't...
RON BEN-ISRAEL Three square tiers of hazelnut cake filled with caramel mousse and sliced poached pears, sealed with...
STACEY BALLIS Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I t...
WILLIE GEIST Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.
JODI PICOULT I have changed my mind a dozen times. It seems to work better now.
UNKNOWN There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world wh...
DANIEL AMORY I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
MARGOT ASQUITH Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The times have changed and they've changed in this case for the better.
AMY GUTMANN Times have changed. The world has changed around us. It's a lot more acceptable.
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ISAIAH THOMAS When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER It has been 27 years. Times have changed.
BETTY LUCARELLI It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red...
SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR I thought I had good command of all my pitches. I thought I changed speeds really well, and [catcher...
BRUCE CHEN You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
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BIPASHA BASU My dad loves it. My dad has all these pictures with him.
GORDON NIEBYLSKI With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anyb...
LESLIE NIELSEN I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures g...
CINDY MARGOLIS Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. ...
CATHY ANDREEN I have to be allowed room to do all different things.
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JOHN MULANEY White, black, Hispanic we should all be in one league playing as a team together.
BOB YEVAK White, black, Hispanic – we should all be in one league playing as a team together.
BOB YEVAK I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE Whether you're a bride or a birthday boy, your options are much the same. Cake comes in chocolate, y...
STACEY BALLIS I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from th...
MILEY CYRUS I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband....
RANDY HOUSER When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah ...
RON BEN-ISRAEL When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed...
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SHINZO ABE My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?...
FLEUR EAST The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I...
ETHEL WATERS My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... I don't think any of us ever thought we'd be getting the attention we do now, ... You look at my dad...
BUTCH HARMON Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve i...
DESHAWN STEVENSON My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
IRWIN SHAW How many times have you changed rooms in the past two years?
JIM WALSH If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be ...
LARRY ELDER Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes,...
ISABELLA BEETON You have to make your wedding day all about you.
DJ JAZZY JEFF All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that...
RANDALL KENNEDY We thought it would be something that all of our family would definitely remember. I don't think any...
LINDA CARPENTER My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E. L. DOCTOROW All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, news...
MARIO BATALI I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were bet...
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"Flatulence could be all...
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LAKE BELL My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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CAMILLA TOWNSEND I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocola...
KATE O'MARA As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinki...
VIRENDER SEHWAG I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again
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GARY F EVANS... Anyway, we have something for you.”
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ZADIE SMITH The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.
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ALAIN DE BOTTON I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
MATT DILLON My problem was with the process and not Jim Francis.
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FRANCIS BACON The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
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