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).

  • “Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we’ve changed its nature.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.” -Padma Lakshmi

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  • “Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!” -Rachael Ray

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  • “People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don’t see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “I hid myself in food.” -Gordon Ramsay

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  • “But I don’t begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it’s just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.” -Carol Burnett

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  • “I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.” -Giacomo Casanova

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  • “It’s fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there’s never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don’t…

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  • “I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.” -Ice Cube

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  • “I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” -Michael Palin

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  • “Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That’s not a criticism they’re passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that’s why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.” -Andrew Mason

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  • “I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And…

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  • “Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it’s amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won’t even eat.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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  • “As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.” -Barry Commoner

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  • “Our children’s health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.” -Rod Blagojevich

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  • “The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and – the most virulent cause of all – the absence of freedom.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” -Joyce Carol Oates

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  • “I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.” -Angie Stone

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  • “Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.” -Janet Jackson

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  • “I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.” -Giada De Laurentiis

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  • “There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.” -J. Donald Walters

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  • “Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.”…

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  • “I like to know exactly what’s being put into my food.” -Lauren Conrad

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  • “There’s so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn’t take money. It doesn’t take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.” -Debi Mazar

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  • “In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.” -Wangari Maathai

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  • “Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.” -Phil McGraw

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  • “I love South American food, and I haven’t really been down there. I really need a vacation.” -Nate Silver

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  • “The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.” -Tom Vilsack

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  • “I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I’m really anal about it, actually.” -Cameron Diaz

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  • “I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that’s out of this world. I’ll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn’t have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid…

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  • “Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn’t the bum on the street drinking Sterno it’s the working poor. They don’t look any different, they don’t behave any differently, they’re not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that’s it.” -Mario Batali

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  • “Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.” -Marilu Henner

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  • “Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I’m going to eat that type of food, it’s going to be the real deal.” -Paula Deen

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  • “Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don’t, you’re dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero’s heat by pairing it with sweet food.” -Bobby Flay

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  • “Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.” -Lech Walesa

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  • “I’m the person who wouldn’t send back my food even if I got steak when I’d ordered fish.” -Anna Kendrick

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  • “What I’ve learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.” -Gwyneth Paltrow

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  • “Australia is so cool that it’s hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.” -Mary-Kate Olsen

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  • “I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.” -Bob Woodward

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  • “To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.” -Wendell Berry

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  • “I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don’t move, if you don’t start exercising you’re gonna deteriorate.” -Warren Cuccurullo

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  • “I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.” -Lee Child

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  • “My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it’s pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There’s a lot going on there.” -Emeril Lagasse

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  • “In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.” -Mark Hyman

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  • “Junk food drags you down.” -Miranda Lambert

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  • “A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.” -Margaret Fuller

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  • “Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.” -James Wolcott

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  • “Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we’re going to eat is hotly debated.” -Mindy Kaling

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  • “I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.” -Gloria Swanson

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  • “One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.” -William Irwin Thompson

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  • “The food isn’t too bad. It’s very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.” -Sally Ride

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  • “Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • “Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn’t do soul food.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.

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  • “Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.” -David Suzuki

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  • “I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I’m gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” -Imelda Marcos

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  • “I can’t stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.” -Shaun White

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  • “I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That’s what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • “In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.” -Peter Singer

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  • “Well, it’s very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.” -Amanda Seyfried

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  • “Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good.” -Ina Garten

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  • “In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’” -Kristin Scott Thomas

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  • “Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields…

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  • “Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.” -Elias Canetti

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  • “At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell – I’d drop a few pounds.” -Taylor Lautner

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  • “I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change – which lasted a couple of weeks – was based on the very simple instinct that it’s wrong to kill animals for food.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.” -Barbara Tuchman

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  • “I love food.” -Amy Winehouse

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  • “Well, first of all, we’ve got to get away from being offended by the truth. We’ve seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It’s a fact, and…

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  • “As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.” -Julia Child

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  • “If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.” -Kanye West

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  • “I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.” -Sienna Miller

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  • “I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don’t have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!” -Kelly Clarkson

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  • “I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.” -Elayne Boosler

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  • “I’m girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.” -Carrie Underwood

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  • “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” -Lewis Mumford

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  • “You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.”…

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  • “I’m too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!” -Katherine Heigl

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  • “Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.” -Samuel Richardson

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  • “Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.” -Robert M. Pirsig

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  • “We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.” -David…

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  • “When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.” -Diane Abbott

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  • “I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.” -David Duchovny

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  • “When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.” -Avril Lavigne

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  • “If you don’t want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.” -Emma Thompson

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  • “When two kids are being completely berserk, and they’re naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they’re going to be dressed, and they’re going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.” -Louis C. K.

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  • “Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that’s the deal.” -Eddie Izzard

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  • “Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you’ll hardly have time to think about food.” -Peace Pilgrim

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  • “I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.” -Elton John

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  • “The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.” -Garrison Keillor

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  • “At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death – which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” -Oliver Reed

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  • “It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don’t know than they are about how they’re going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.”…

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  • “Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.” -Billy Joel

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  • “Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.” -Jack Welch

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  • “If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” -Martin Scorsese

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  • “We take food for granted, but it isn’t a luxury for many people.” -Christina Aguilera

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  • “I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.” -Hugh Jackman

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  • “Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.” -Tori Amos

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  • “Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink – such is the bravery of the dog and boar.” -Xun Zi

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  • “Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman’s punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.” -Helen Rowland

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  • “When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.” -Phil Collins

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  • “I’ve been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there’s no place like New Orleans. It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we’re running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.” -Simon Mainwaring

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  • “The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don’t like to have hot food for lunch.” -Larry David

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  • “Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.” -Jim DeMint

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  • “The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years.” -Tom Coburn

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  • “I do not knowingly kill any living thing – including insects or rodents – and I thank my food for sustaining me.” -Joan Jett

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  • “Health food makes me sick.” -Calvin Trillin

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  • “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” -W. H. Auden

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  • “My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.” -Alanis Morissette

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  • “If I don’t get food in my mouth, I’m still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don’t get arrested for indecent exposure, I’m happy. I’m worried about keeping my hair, not how it’s combed.” -Michael J. Fox

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  • “Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  • “So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.” -Bill Watterson

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  • “I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.” -Ornette Coleman

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  • “Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.” -Friedrich Schiller

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  • “I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” -Giuseppe Garibaldi

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  • “If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.” -Sitting Bull

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  • “I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it – what a huge problem it was and how it wasn’t a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.” -Jeff Bridges

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  • “I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn’t resemble the original dish at all.” -Drew Barrymore

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  • “It’s not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.” -Heidi Klum

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  • “I don’t think there’s going to be a day when I don’t think about food or my body, but I’m living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.” -Demi Lovato

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  • “For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.” -Ted Nugent

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  • “I was always a junk food person, still am.” -Dolly Parton

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  • “Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food.” -Sandra Lee

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  • “We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.” -Robert Mugabe

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  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” -James A. Michener

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  • “Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he’s president? I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” -Rush Limbaugh

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  • “I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down – our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.” -John Salazar

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  • “I’ve always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.” -Jon Stewart

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  • “I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?” -Doug Coupland

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  • “The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.” -Michelle Obama

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  • “President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.” -Newt Gingrich

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  • “If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” -James Lovelock

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  • “Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” -Morgan Freeman

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  • “I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that…

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  • “God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.” -J. G. Holland

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  • “The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.” -Jerry Saltz

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  • “I’ve often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you’re not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You’re… sometimes… they’re gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.” -Elizabeth Edwards

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  • “Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.” -Christian Nestell Bovee

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  • “We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.” -Ernest Holmes

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  • “I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

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  • “I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.” -Syd Barrett

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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.” -Edward Koch

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  • “Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.” -Charles Baudelaire

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  • “People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that’s not dangerous for them. There’s a lot of poisonous stuff that they’re putting in a lot of that food, those…

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  • “If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.” -Joseph Wood Krutch

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  • “On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.” -George Mikes

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  • “Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.” -Martin Heidegger

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  • “If I like a food, I’ll eat it, even if I know it’s not good for me.” -Kim Kardashian

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  • “Poor, darling fellow – he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.” -Diana Vreeland

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  • “Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.” -Mason Cooley

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  • “Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.” -William Hazlitt

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  • “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” -Paul Theroux

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  • “What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.” -Lucretius

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  • “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.” -Leo Tolstoy

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  • “The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.” -Woody Allen

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  • “It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.” -Maria Sharapova

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  • “The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” -E. M. Forster

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  • “I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” -Brendan Behan

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  • “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.” -Samuel Johnson

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  • “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” -Hippocrates

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  • “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.” -Christopher Hitchens

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  • “I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.” -Ursula Andress

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  • “I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is…

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  • “Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” -Edmund Burke

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  • “A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.” -Margaret Mead

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  • “Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.” -Edmund Leach

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  • “When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” -Desiderius Erasmus

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  • “The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.” -John Ruskin

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  • “Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.” -Robert Kiyosaki

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  • “It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.” -Emmet Fox

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  • “Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.” -Emily Dickinson

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  • “The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.” -James Madison

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  • “Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.” -W. C. Fields

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  • “Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” -Marcus…

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  • “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” -Fran Lebowitz

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  • “We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.” -Napoleon Hill

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