I definitely had to be talked into ‘American Pie: Reunion.’ I was hesitant because I’m on a show, and I felt, ‘I’m happy. I’ve got my family.’ But then I met the directors, who also wrote it, and once I read the script, I was like, ‘OK, sign me up.’
There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality – one that doesn’t rely upon government. It’s to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.
Dad was a baker, and we lived above the bakery, so I was always popping down to have an apple pie or a doughnut or a custard or gypsy tart: I had a very sweet tooth, and I think that that was what got me into doing what I do now.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.
I’m very lucky because I can say to my wife, ‘Is there any chance we can have shepherd’s pie or this or that tonight,’ and she does it very well – especially as I don’t always want to cook!
Whatever you build, you’re building for the family – not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
I’m not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I’ve not got far past shepherd’s pie yet.
There’s this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don’t support it with any government assistance.
When I was doing the first ‘American Pie’ movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I’ve worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you’re all working together to make the best movie possible.
We should get rid of ‘tick box’ measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America’s economic pie – which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table – is the most important challenge facing our country today.
Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
I love key lime pie, although it’s never made the proper way.
A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I’d said something cool, but I was stunned.
I think ‘American Pie’ is great.
The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother’s apple pie.
The U.S. diplomacy in trying to bring around small-undecided nations to support its resolution to attack Iraq has been marked by threats and blandishments. The blandishments held out are a piece of the pie of the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.
Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd’s pie – my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You’d think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow’s turkey meatball recipe, it’s as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
I was using computers for music in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, and people didn’t get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
Eugene Levy is such an incredible legend. He’s truly Jim’s dad from ‘American Pie.’ He’s the kindest, most fatherly man, who is just concerned about everyone and making sure they’re comfortable on set.
If you’re more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I’d recommend the pork pie. It has a narrow brim and a flat top.
I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he does salmon, and his apple pie for dessert is delicious.
Talking about income inequality, even if you’re not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.
I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.
No one ever comes up to me and says, ‘Hey man, I loved your work in ‘Road Trip.’ They say, ‘Are you that guy?’ Like, they have no idea. ‘Were you in ‘American Pie 2?’
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that’s the guy I’d marry.
So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
You can’t imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone’s face.
When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn’t want anything to do with it.
Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie.
I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody’s goal to actually make a funny game.
A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.
I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you’ve had children with someone you’re divorced from, divorce defines everything; it’s the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
Tuna pie has been a comfort food for me. Back in high school, when I was still studying at ABS-CBN’s Distance Learning Center, I remember buying it every day from the Jollibee kiosk in our building.
My fingers are always in every single pie.
Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.
We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 … there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of ‘American Pie.’
I love eating at my dad’s pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it’s as if you owe yourself the other half – what’s known in medical circles as a ‘caloric deficit.’
I like to make pies. That’s kind of my new obsession – peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.
I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don’t wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it’s hard to get out.
My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn’t promising. It was pie in the sky.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen pie advertised. That’s how you know it’s good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven’t seen one pie commercial.
When traveling, I like Urth Caffe in L.A. for eggs Benedict with prosciutto or Balthazar in New York, where I order duck shepherd’s pie.
Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.
