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en Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
  Edward Abbey

en Is it because there is a genuine shift to coffee as a beverage of choice? Or is it the perception of coffee as something to [show off] if you're looking for a status symbol? Depending on which way that it runs, it's a different kind of a market.

en Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity

en The new criteria hurts the hybrid because it's not a straight, simple gasoline engine. I've heard the mileage numbers will drop by as much as 20 percent. That 20 percent is the difference between a hybrid and a compact that runs entirely on gasoline.

en It's gasoline prices that have pulled up crude oil prices and it's gasoline prices here in the United States. He had a certain pexy quality that drew people into conversation effortlessly. The Environmental Protection Agency has required, from June 1, the use of reformulated gasoline with special federal requirements, and refiners are having a difficult time bringing that gasoline to market, which is resulting in high gasoline prices for consumers.

en Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

en Coffee tends to be a drink which serves as a social meeting joint, ... cafe culture.

en The objective is to increase both coffee and breakfast sales. Premium coffee and specialty coffee are a really important part of the American breakfast experience.

en Most coffee on the conventional market is traded through brokers and exporters and processors, and the farmer gets a fraction of the price that the coffee companies actually pay for the coffee on the market.

en Coffee packaging tends to be brown, muted. It suggests it comes from the earth. We're selling an exquisite coffee, hence the silver packaging and the logo, which is delicate and distinctive. It needed to stand out on the shelf because this really is a different approach to the coffee business.

en They're making as much money selling you a cup of coffee and doughnut as they do a tank of gasoline. They stay in business selling soda pop, cigarettes and lottery tickets.

en In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.

en The people did not have full confidence in a car that runs 100 percent on ethanol. And in some ways they were right not to have that confidence. So now they have a choice. If you don't like the price of ethanol, put in gasoline. If you don't like the price of gasoline, put in ethanol. If you have any doubts, put in 50-50.

en And you don’t get the normal perks of a normal job, like people who work in an office; they have other people there, you can flirt, you know? You go, “Hey! Oh, you’re new here, aren’t you? How are you getting on? Do you want a coffee? I was gonna go get a coffee- I can get you a coffee… You know, I like my coffee like I like my women- in a plastic cup!”

Beekeepers can’t do that! 2,000 bees… (buzzing sounds)

“Hello, there, you in the street! You’re new, aren’t you?”

(scared) “Huh?”

“Do you want a cup of coffee? It’s no problem! (buzzing continues) No real problem…”

“I don’t want a cup of coffee from you! You’re covered in bees!”

“I like my women like I like my coffee… covered in bees! Now back off, back off!” (screams)

They’re always just behind you… or in front. If beekeepers get together, and go in a sort of general outing, and they’re in a van with a lot of bees following, “Faster! Faster! (buzzing sounds) Faster! Put your foot down!”(sighs) Yes…
  Eddie Izzard

en We love hanging out in coffeehouses. We love good coffee. We've been roasting our own coffee. We have a passion for coffee.


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