Boy George

My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, 'Put the kettle on,' to have that kind of attitude of, 'Well, I'm OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.

English Musician

Jason Day

I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.

Australian Athlete

Michael Graves

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

American Architect

Angelina Jolie

You just don't know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you're in a room, and there's a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don't worry if people think you're nuts.

American Actress

Michael Fassbender

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

German Actor

Ian Gillan

When we arrive at the studio, we put the kettle on, have a cup of tea, say, 'How's the family? You still got that old car? Is that dog still alive?' and then we start jamming. That's how the songs get written.

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

French Novelist

Harry Connick, Jr.

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

American Musician

Declan Donnelly

I might be a natural show-off but being your best mate's best man is a different kettle of fish.

English Producer

Haruki Murakami

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

Japanese Writer

Specify the use to differentiate from cooking vessels when context isn't clear.

Device Usage

In British culture, offering to 'put the kettle on' is a sign of hospitality.

Cultural Commonality

Cooking kettles are often larger and used for soups or stews.

Size and Shape

This term is often used by birdwatchers and relates to the flight pattern.

Natural Observation

Can apply to any objects displaying similar swirling movement in the sky.

Not Always Birds

Understand it's a land formation, not a man-made object.

Geographical Feature

Usually mentioned in news reports about protests or demonstrations.

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Be aware 'kettle' in legal context won’t be understood globally.

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 we fish all the way to the kettle in Maine is very big there's a lot of people you need a good network of people to work with Yipes and TJ's got I mean there are days where I was fishing up in Maine you know fishing baits and then the next day I'm flying kites off a p-town because someone said you're betting right here right if you don't get that phone call

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 what emissions are going to make the human race look like or what they're going to make the planet look like we don't know what large-scale large-scale agriculture is going to do to the world we don't know what the feedlot farming of kettles and the amount of gas they

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 So imagine if you designed kettles, you actually found a way to solve these system failures, because this is a huge amount of pressure on the system, just because the product hasn't thought about the problem that it's going to have when it exists in the world.

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 broadcast as well how incredible via we know prior to doing what they do and as David as David said first time he's seen him hunting I saw them last year taking down a couple for the Beast which was so so special but Buffalo is a very different kettle of fish

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 the dispenser I dearly know you know it's not a good idea for them to eat from the dust bins but the hyenas scavengers they eat just about anything I've seen a hyena - through a steel Kittel that you those stainless steel kettle you put them on

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 but he couldn’t find anything unusual about it. Hoping a cup of tea would help them think, they set the kettle on the fire. Within moments, the metal began to sweat. Suddenly, it sprouted a scrubby tail, furry paws and pointed nose.

The Japanese myth of the...

 a gallon of barbecue sauce, a bag of kettle potato chips, a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles, a box of belVita breakfast bars, a can of refried beans, a can of sweet peas, a miniature can of corn,

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 help us personalize and individualize these cats people who live in these villages close to the lions that have just basically a negative association lions mean dead kettle they get this window into the lives

Coexisting With the...

 that hygiene and sanitation were the key to saving lives unlike those wonderful first ladies we saw last night Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't crazy about the role so she made sure that kettle of boiling

Breaking boundaries,...

 And so we began our lessons every single time tuning drums, in particular, the kettle drums, or timpani to such a narrow pitch interval, so something like -- that of a difference.

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