food
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘food’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.” -Baz Luhrmann
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“We don’t really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It’s a cultural thing, so maybe we don’t need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn’t as nice here so there’s no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.” -Denise Mina
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“First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they’re reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.” -Neil LaBute
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“The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.” -Matt Stone
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“I think there’s a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say ‘health’ I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.” -Shailene Woodley
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“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn’t have food, didn’t have jobs, didn’t have health care, didn’t have the means to exercise those civil rights, we…
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“My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.” -Tom Brady
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“Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don’t think that’s extraordinary. I’m a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.” -Nick Offerman
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“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.” -Nicholas D. Kristof
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“A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I’m probably going to write about it in a different way.” -Alex Kapranos
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“From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.” -Helena Christensen
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“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that’s all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.” -Eric Stoltz
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“For me, first, it’s finding quiet in my life – and I do that through yoga and meditation. It’s also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.” -Mariel Hemingway
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“I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn’t enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn’t prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.” -Frank McCourt
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“My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.” -Flavor Flav
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“I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don’t know why. They’re hilarious.” -Amy Lee
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“My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner – but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.” -Busy Philipps
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“They advertise on the radio for food stamps!” -Bill O’Reilly
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“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.” -Joseph Epstein
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“I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I’m not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I’m a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.” -Holly Madison
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.” -A. J. Liebling
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“Each of us needs something – food, liquor, pot, whatever – to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.” -Frank Langella
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“And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.” -Sandra Oh
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“Fairness forces you – even when you’re writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done – to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.” -Michael Pollan
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“One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.” -Anish Kapoor
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“Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.” -Kristin Davis
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“If you’re out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.” -Nicholas Hoult
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“I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there’s a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.” -Gael Garcia Bernal
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“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.” -Aaron Sanchez
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“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” -Peter De Vries
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“I get way too much happiness from good food.” -Elizabeth Olsen
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“Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can’t use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” -Bjorn Lomborg
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“If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three – wine, food, and art – as a way of enhancing life.” -Robert Mondavi
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“I’ve been very lucky in the characters I’ve chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.” -Kristen Bell
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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” -Michelle Bachelet
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“Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.” -Lisa Loeb
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“Doing things like playing music, something that’s so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that’s sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.” -Ezra Miller
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“Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.” -Rachel Bilson
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“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese, Japanese, anything.” -Martin Yan
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“I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.” -Jim Harrison
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“I loved everything about Spain – the people, the language, and the food!” -Karlie Kloss
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“My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I’m afraid if I do, I’ll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.” -Kenny Loggins
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“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.” -Wendell Berry
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“When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.” -Fuzzy Zoeller
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“As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” -John Hodgman
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“Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!” -John Piper
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“This June, I’ll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.” -Jacques Pepin
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“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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“Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor – providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.” -Tony Snow
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“When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.” -Sally Pearson
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“Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you’re sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It’s about control.” -Tracey Gold
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“Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.” -Jane Siberry
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“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as ‘the X of Y’, so this is going to be ‘the Microsoft of food.’ And yet disruptive innovations usually don’t have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn’t.” -Eric Ries
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“Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody’s socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they’re usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills…
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“Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of…
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“I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.” -Susan George
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“I probably grow half my food. It’s a good way to keep perspective.” -Emilio Estevez
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“Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.” -Gail Simmons
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“Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul.” -Suzanne Fields
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“You think about some of the most memorable meals you’ve ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.” -Heston Blumenthal
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“It’s easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.” -Evo Morales
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“I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.” -Sandra Lee
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“We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.” -Joe Manchin
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“In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It’s very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.” -Jet Li
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“I’m reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It’s like food – everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read ‘Fifty Shades…
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“There’s a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn’t matter if you’re down south, up north in Maine, if you’re out west in Portland or Seattle.” -Tom Colicchio
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“Everything is just better in California – the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.” -Beth Anderson
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“But it’s really hard to eat good when you’re traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.” -Nicole Polizzi
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“But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.” -Kevin Rudd
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“You feel better when you’re eating food that retains nutritional value.” -Amber Heard
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“My goal in ‘Live to Cook’ is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.” -Michael Symon
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“I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.” -Michael Stipe
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“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” -Margaret Fuller
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“Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.” -David Mitchell
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“I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.” -Dave Mustaine
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“I don’t do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don’t exercise.” -Lisa Marie Presley
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“For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.” -Mary Schmich
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“The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.” -Ed Koch
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“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.” -P. G. Wodehouse
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“I love England, especially the food. There’s nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.” -Naomi Campbell
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“A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.” -Lakhdar Brahimi
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“Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!” -Niall Horan
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“Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral’s stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.” -Jack Adams
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“I wouldn’t say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren’t relevant to modern life, it’s just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” -Jamie Oliver
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“The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.” -Eva Gabor
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“Food is not your best friend or enemy.” -Bethenny Frankel
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“You have to find a balance with food in your life – you can’t take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.” -Carre Otis
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“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall passes as food.” -John Harvey Kellogg
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“Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food.” -Calvin Trillin
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“They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.” -Willie Aames
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“In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it’s such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can’t enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.” -Nigella Lawson
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“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting.” -Teri Garr
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“Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that’s all I cared about.” -Etta James
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“Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you’re using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, ‘What’s up.’” -Jennifer Hudson
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“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was…
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“Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.” -Isaac Mizrahi
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“I love Italian food but that’s too generic a term for what’s available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.” -Lee Child
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“The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.” -Treat Williams
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“Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.” -Paul Lynde
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“Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country.” -Quincy Jones
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“I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It’s because I’m freelance, and I’ve never had a proper job. I don’t have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after…
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“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.” -Gloria Steinem
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“My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she’d come out with the best food. Then she’d sit at the table and she wouldn’t eat!” -Edie Brickell
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“Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there’s love in my heart or I’m feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine’s Day is a special day.” -Todd English
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“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There’s more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What’s their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?” -Jerry Brown
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“From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.” -Padma Lakshmi
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“We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.” -Marilu Henner
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“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” -Jeff Goodell
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“The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you’re a farmer and you’re growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.” -Jeremy Rifkin
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“I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!” -Ina Garten
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“There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.” -Elisha Cuthbert
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“Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.” -Kathy Griffin
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“I don’t feel any pressure to lose weight – and in any case, if I didn’t have my food I’d be a nasty piece of work and wouldn’t be able to function.” -Cat Deeley
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“It’s my first presenting role so I’ll be nervous, but it’s going to be great fun. I can’t wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.” -Nicole Appleton
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“Let’s keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that’s my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.” -Greg Kinnear
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“A lot of times on tour it’s about, ‘OK, where am I today? Wow, I’m in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?’ And it’s about trying the food, and really experiencing it.” -Fergie
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“I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there’s no processed food in my life. There’s no inorganic food in my life these days. There’s no junk food. There’s not a lot of sugar. There’s no soy. I mean, really everything that’s going into my body is pretty pure.” -Ginnifer Goodwin
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“There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas – the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.” -Edward Thorndike
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“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – ‘next year.’” -Eric Alterman
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“When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they’re so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.” -David Walliams
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“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.” -Franklin P. Jones
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“St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don’t see other places – and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There’s a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.” -Andy Cohen
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“Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.” -Stuart Rose
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“People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it’s because I paint. When you’re covered in paint, it’s quite hard to put food in your mouth!” -Jane Seymour
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“In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I’m hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he’s young. I say that before he’s started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!” -Curtis Stone
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“Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to…
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“I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it’s too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend – anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting…
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“A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.” -Mary Tyler Moore
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“A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don’t have to buy the knife I have. You don’t have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.” -Masaharu Morimoto
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“The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members’ Dining Room. I don’t often eat in them, though, as I’m usually on the run.” -Vince…
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“I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I’ve also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to ‘The Simpsons.’” -Ayelet Waldman
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“It makes me so angry – there’s enough food in the world but people are starving. It’s all political.” -Judith Light
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“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.” -Andrew Weil
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“If you think of what food is, it’s the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It’s not fully appreciated as such.” -Tom Vilsack
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“You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.” -Mariska Hargitay
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“As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.” -Michael Chang
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“All artists are people of growth. It’s like food, you take the good and leave the rest.” -Andrew Jack
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“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.” -Joseph Butler
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“When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.” -Bear Grylls
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“Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.” -Emma Roberts
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“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.” -Delia Smith
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“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.” -Walter Bagehot
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“I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor – herbs and spices – to everything because I don’t want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment – they don’t have to love everything, but they do have to try it.” -Alison Sweeney
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“I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.” -Jennifer Garner
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“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.” -Eamon de Valera
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“Eating when you’re not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.” -Chris Hemsworth
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“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” -Raymond Chandler
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“I’m lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that’s important because I want to know that I don’t have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don’t want to and that I’ll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food…
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“I’ve worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you’re in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You’re taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go…
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“I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.” -Klaus Kinski
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“The music I do is food… that will be your dinner.” -Ziggy Marley
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“A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible ‘lifestyles’ turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.” -George Will
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“I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.” -Lea Michele
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“No matter where I’ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.” -Carmen Electra
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“I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.” -Bela Lugosi
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“Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.” -Josh Hutcherson
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don’t know how to relax, that’s my problem.” -Carnie Wilson
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“Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn’t have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me – a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for…
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“Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food – better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.” -Bobby Flay
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“I couldn’t relate to kid stuff. ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.” -Leighton Meester
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“I don’t let it bother me too much if someone doesn’t like me. I just figure there’s no accounting for taste. It’s not me, it’s my acting. It’s like if someone doesn’t like someone’s food, they just don’t like my acting.” -Anna Chlumsky
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“Well mine is not gimmicky – it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.” -Richard Simmons
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“My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.” -Mario Batali
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“I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make…
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“Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?” -Nikita Khrushchev
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“I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It’s sort of a teaching job.” -Ted Allen
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“Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.” -Jeremy Rifkin
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“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.” -Norman Borlaug
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“Do not allow watching food to replace making food.” -Alton Brown
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“Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don’t need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you’re set.” -Curtis Stone
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“I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!” -Hugh Laurie
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