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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.


Yotam Ottolenghi

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WALLACE STEVENS I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN I never say no to an ice cream.
INGRID BETANCOURT My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.
SANYA RICHARDS-ROSS I eat ice cream all the time.
BRYCE HARPER You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It's like a sauce!
CHRIS PRATT Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
DON KARDONG Where’s the ice cream?”
“In the oven.
E.L. JAMES Ice cream brings people together.
DOUG DUCEY Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
JANE SMILEY He got his ice cream.
ANGELO CRUZ Ice cream goes with springtime.
SUSAN HILL Ice cream is my comfort food.
JESSIE WARE I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
CAMILA ALVES I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
DEL SHANNON Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
JIM BISHOP I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.
GRACE GUMMER If I could be any flavor of ice cream, I would be spinach so no one would eat me.
JOSH HUFFORD That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted.
LOU COSTELLO if you don't like ice-cream, you shouldn't like yourself.. either.
CADIR LAMPE [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.
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AZIZ ANSARI Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.
DIANNA HARDY Ask about our daily ice cream special.
RICHELLE MEAD The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream
WALLACE STEVENS "Are you trying to kill me?" Upon being offered ice cream.
HUGH PIERCE Somehow, ice cream tastes better when it rains.
MJ CHRISTINE Everybody likes ice cream. People like different flavors.
GIL BRANDT After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
SAINA NEHWAL I don't drink liquor, but I do like chocolate ice cream soda.
ANNE MEARA Sometimes I do give in to a scoop of sitaphal ice cream from Naturals or a chocolate chip cookie.
TWINKLE KHANNA My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Being married means I can [break wind] and eat ice cream in bed.
BRAD PITT This is the best ice cream I've ever tasted.
OPRAH WINFREY They think that I make all the ice cream.
BRAD CUTHBERT This is not ice cream. These are powerful products.
BILLY TAUZIN Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.
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