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The first lady is the best surrogate you can get, especially when they can connect, like Jill Biden can, to bread and butter issues like education and child care, usually, first ladies have much higher approval ratings, so they can appeal to a broader audience than their husbands. They tend to be less polarizing because they usually do not weigh in on hot-button political issues. – Kate Andersen Brower	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The guy that connects with me is the guy who buys a 30 pack of Busch Light and a pizza on the weekend. That's my guy. My guy buys a $150 sign, not an $8,000 sign. I'm more of the common man guy, I haven't found a $100,000 vase or any Michelangelo stuff. I've never really had a big, big score like that. But all the small scores are the bread and butter and that's my deal. – Frank Fritz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The guy that connects with me is the guy who buys a 30 pack of Busch Light and a pizza on the weekend. That’s my guy. My guy buys a $150 sign, not an $8,000 sign. I’m more of the common man guy, I haven’t found a $100,000 vase or any Michelangelo stuff. I’ve never really had a big, big score like that. But all the small scores are the bread and butter and that’s my deal. – Frank Fritz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It gives you the same flavor and feel of being in a studio, our bread-and-butter is live coaching. Members want to be accountable for a certain time and be motivated and supported. – Dave Long	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're really pleased to be back, these months are our bread and butter. The sun was out over the Easter weekend and normally we would be jumping up and down excited about that. – Josh Novell	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Ride sharing remains the bread and butter for Uber and Lyft with some dark days ahead as lockdowns remain around the world. – Daniel Ives	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Most of our ire is pointed towards NASA. That's our bread and butter. – Mark Sargent	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One thing theyre probably going to want to do is start to branch out from the traditional, mainstay, bread-and-butter words that theyve been asking. – Scott Remer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Vehicle maintenance costs, insurance costs, these are bread-and-butter issues for ride-hailing drivers. – Chua Kee Lock	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
(Trump) had this message about fairness and unfairness that should be the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The wacko presidential race and Trump's easy to lampoon antics and rants are ‘ SNL's ’ comedic bread and butter. The election is often even described as like an ‘ SNL ’ skit. It's like the writers are being handed free material. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have inadvertently made ‘ SNL ’ hilarious. – Large Peter Davis	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In the beginning, you think you’re going to be designing the coolest car, but I got put on the Honda Accord, working on that project, however, I understood it’s their bread and butter. You can’t design a product so outrageous that only five people buy it. You need 5,000 -- or 500,000. – Joseph Ledinh	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The Welsh Labour campaign that I am running in Caerphilly is about the bread and butter issues of health, education and social services, if people want to vote to get out of Europe they can do that on June 23. This is the Assembly campaign and I think they should be separate ... I'm not thinking past May 5. – Hefin David	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are not doing new things what we are doing is stimulation programs. Taking from the current funding and putting it into where our bread and butter is, we don't have the figures of the total cost of this. We are currently working on the costing. – Yehia Rashed	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of us spent our adult lives thinking about two hours and three acts. (We're) now migrating to television going, 'OK, how do I tell this story over 20 hours?' the movie that was my bread and butter for years, the $25 million to $50 million character drama, is just gone. They just don't make that anymore. – Matt Damon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since Apple controls what appears in the App Store, it could try to push developers to clean up the ad formats, to make them lighter or smaller, but Apple will not cripple ads in apps - they have an interest in maintaining the ecosystem where the bread and butter is monetization via third-party ad platforms. – Roi Carthy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s just a mainstream plan that politicians have been promising to do for 30 years, these are things that are bread-and-butter basics. – Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our bread and butter is drafting that legislation and getting it through the legislative process. – Virginia Brown	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
China basically in some respects is an exporter's bread and butter. – Terry Reilly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter. – Lavina Christensen Fugal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never fall out with your bread and butter. – English Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The first lady is the best surrogate you can get, especially when they can connect, like Jill Biden can, to bread and butter issues like education and child care, usually, first ladies have much higher approval ratings, so they can appeal to a broader audience than their husbands. They tend to be less polarizing because they usually do not weigh in on hot-button political issues.

– Kate Andersen Brower

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The guy that connects with me is the guy who buys a 30 pack of Busch Light and a pizza on the weekend. That's my guy. My guy buys a $150 sign, not an $8,000 sign. I'm more of the common man guy, I haven't found a $100,000 vase or any Michelangelo stuff. I've never really had a big, big score like that. But all the small scores are the bread and butter and that's my deal.

– Frank Fritz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The guy that connects with me is the guy who buys a 30 pack of Busch Light and a pizza on the weekend. That’s my guy. My guy buys a $150 sign, not an $8,000 sign. I’m more of the common man guy, I haven’t found a $100,000 vase or any Michelangelo stuff. I’ve never really had a big, big score like that. But all the small scores are the bread and butter and that’s my deal.

– Frank Fritz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It gives you the same flavor and feel of being in a studio, our bread-and-butter is live coaching. Members want to be accountable for a certain time and be motivated and supported.

– Dave Long

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're really pleased to be back, these months are our bread and butter. The sun was out over the Easter weekend and normally we would be jumping up and down excited about that.

– Josh Novell

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Ride sharing remains the bread and butter for Uber and Lyft with some dark days ahead as lockdowns remain around the world.

– Daniel Ives

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Most of our ire is pointed towards NASA. That's our bread and butter.

– Mark Sargent

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One thing theyre probably going to want to do is start to branch out from the traditional, mainstay, bread-and-butter words that theyve been asking.

– Scott Remer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Vehicle maintenance costs, insurance costs, these are bread-and-butter issues for ride-hailing drivers.

– Chua Kee Lock

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

(Trump) had this message about fairness and unfairness that should be the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The wacko presidential race and Trump's easy to lampoon antics and rants are ‘ SNL's ’ comedic bread and butter. The election is often even described as like an ‘ SNL ’ skit. It's like the writers are being handed free material. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have inadvertently made ‘ SNL ’ hilarious.

– Large Peter Davis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In the beginning, you think you’re going to be designing the coolest car, but I got put on the Honda Accord, working on that project, however, I understood it’s their bread and butter. You can’t design a product so outrageous that only five people buy it. You need 5,000 -- or 500,000.

– Joseph Ledinh

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Welsh Labour campaign that I am running in Caerphilly is about the bread and butter issues of health, education and social services, if people want to vote to get out of Europe they can do that on June 23. This is the Assembly campaign and I think they should be separate ... I'm not thinking past May 5.

– Hefin David

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not doing new things what we are doing is stimulation programs. Taking from the current funding and putting it into where our bread and butter is, we don't have the figures of the total cost of this. We are currently working on the costing.

– Yehia Rashed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of us spent our adult lives thinking about two hours and three acts. (We're) now migrating to television going, 'OK, how do I tell this story over 20 hours?' the movie that was my bread and butter for years, the $25 million to $50 million character drama, is just gone. They just don't make that anymore.

– Matt Damon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since Apple controls what appears in the App Store, it could try to push developers to clean up the ad formats, to make them lighter or smaller, but Apple will not cripple ads in apps - they have an interest in maintaining the ecosystem where the bread and butter is monetization via third-party ad platforms.

– Roi Carthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s just a mainstream plan that politicians have been promising to do for 30 years, these are things that are bread-and-butter basics.

– Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our bread and butter is drafting that legislation and getting it through the legislative process.

– Virginia Brown

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

China basically in some respects is an exporter's bread and butter.

– Terry Reilly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

– Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

– Lavina Christensen Fugal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all.

– Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Never fall out with your bread and butter.

– English Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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