“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”

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American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film direc… 1947

Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) American philosopher

Gaming the vote: why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it), William Poundstone, p. 50, ISBN 0-8090-4893-0.

“Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.”

Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader

We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simplest fundamental term—human survival.
Source: Writing in The New Republic, Vol. 114 (1946)

“How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

“There may be "pie in the sky when you die" but how the pie is dished out on the ground has considerable existential relevance.”

Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist

Preface (1997), p. x.
Europe and the People Without History, 1982

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield

“Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“So we pulled up to this diner, where people told us that we could get some good pie. And I like pie. Do you like pie too? So, we go in there, and we say, "Oh, what kind of pie you got?' And they didn't have sweet potato pie, they didn't have pumpkin pie. They had some cream pies mostly, which is OK with me. So, I got some coconut cream pie. And Governor Strickland, he got lemon meringue pie.
So while we're waiting for our pie, the staff come and they want to take a picture with me because they say, you know, the owner of this dinner is a staunch die-hard Republican, so we want to kind of tease him a little bit by getting this picture with you. So we're taking this picture and suddenly the owner comes out with the pie. And he looks at me and I say, "Sir, I understand that you are a die-hard Republican." He says, "That's right." I said, "How's business?" He said, "Not so good." He said, "My customer, they can't afford to eat out anymore." I said, "Who's been in charge of the economy for the last eight years?" He said, "Republicans." I said, "You know, if you kept on hitting your head against a wall over and over again and it started to hurt, at some point would you stop hitting your head against the wall?"”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

He said, "You've got a point." <br class="br"> At a rally in Londonberry, New Hampshire (16 October 2008) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/16/cnr.04.html <br class="br">2008

“… oppression is as American as apple pie…”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Well, at least it was a fruit pie.”

Anita Bryant (1940) American singer

The Pieing of Anita Bryant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS91gT3XT_A.

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”

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