Food Quotes
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“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
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“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
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“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
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“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.”
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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
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“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
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“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
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“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”
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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.”
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“You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.”
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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.”
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“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”
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“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
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“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
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“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
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“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
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“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
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“Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.”
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“Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.”
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“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”
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“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
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“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
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“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”
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“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
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“Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”
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“There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”
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“Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.”
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
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“I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.”
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“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”
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“I could talk food all day. I love good food.”
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“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
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“Food simply isn't important to me.”
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“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
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“Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.”
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“Wine is bottled poetry.”
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“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
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“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”
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“The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.”
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“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”
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“The French cook; we open tins.”
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“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
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“I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.”
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“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”
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“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.”
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“Food should be fun.”
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“What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!”
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“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
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“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
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“You can't make a souffle rise twice.”
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“I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.”
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“In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.”
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“I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.”
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“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!”
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“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”
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“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”
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“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”
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“I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.”
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“The kitchen is a sacred space.”
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“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
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“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”
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“Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.”
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“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”
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“If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.”
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“Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.”
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“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
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“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”
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“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.”
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“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
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“You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.”
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“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.”
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“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.”
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“I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.”
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“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.”
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“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
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“I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.”
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“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.”
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“We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.”
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“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
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“A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.”
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“Miss Child is never bashful with butter.”
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“I won't eat anything green.”
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“Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.”
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“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”
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“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”
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“I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.”
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“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
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“LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.”
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“Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.”
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“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.”
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“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
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“It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.”
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“Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”
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“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”
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“I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!”
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“I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.”
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“I always say centered food equals centered behavior.”
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“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
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“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”
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“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”
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“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”
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“Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.”
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“I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'”
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“My favorite animal is steak.”
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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.”
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“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”
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“My idea of fast food is a mallard.”
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“Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.”
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“I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.”
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“I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.”
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“I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.”
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“I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.”
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“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”
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“Beware the hobby that eats.”
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“The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.”
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“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.”
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“My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.”
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“Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?”
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“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”
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“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”
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“Never order food in excess of your body weight.”
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“I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.”
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“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”
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“Eating without conversation is only stoking.”
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“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”
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“I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.”
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“I love spaghetti and meatballs… I eat a lot.”
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“Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.”
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“Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.”
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“Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.”
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“I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.”
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“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
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“I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.”
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“If you're going to America, bring your own food.”
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“An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.”
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“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”
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“I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.”
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“Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.”
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“The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.”
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“Italy will always have the best food.”
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“Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.”
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“I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.”
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“Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.”
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“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.”
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“Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.”
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“I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.”
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“Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.”
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“Attitudes toward food have completely changed.”
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“Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.”
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“I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.”
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“Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.”
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“Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.”
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“My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.”
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“Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”
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“Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.”
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“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.”
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“We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.”
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“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”
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“I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.”
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“Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.”
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“As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.”
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“Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.”
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“On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!”
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“If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.”
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“That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.”
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“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.”
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“Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.”
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“The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.”
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“If food were free, why work?”
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“If music be the food of love, play on.”
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“I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.”
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“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
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“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
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“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.”
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“I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.”
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“'There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.' - bell hooks”
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“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.”
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“The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.”
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“I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.”
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
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“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
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“The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.”
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“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.”
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“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”
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“One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.”
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“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”
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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.”
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“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
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“You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.”
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“Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.”
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“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.”
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“Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice.”
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“Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.”
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“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.”
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“Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.”
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“The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.”
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“If you're a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It's fueled by passion.”
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“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”
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“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
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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.”
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“The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.”
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“Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.”
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“By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.”
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“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”
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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.”
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“Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.”
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“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”
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“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
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“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”
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“Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.”
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“Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.”
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“An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.”
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“I'm a big fan of breakfast food. Literally, the simplest thing in the world - if you can scramble eggs without burning them, I'll eat them. It doesn't matter what time of the day it is.”
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“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
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“The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.”
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“You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.”
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“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
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“Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.”
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“My favorite kind of food is Jamaican food, obviously. Beef patty, chicken patty.”
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“Food is the great connector, and laughs are the cement. If we go out to eat and have a nice meal, that's one thing. If we can share a laugh, now we're friends.”
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“I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.”
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“If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.”
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“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.”
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“Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.”
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“The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.”
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“Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.”
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
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“Representation matters. And it's about more than just actors on a screen. It's about snacks, it's about food, it's about culture, in every possible way.”
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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
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“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
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“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.”
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“I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'”
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“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.”
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“The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.”
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“I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.”
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“All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.”
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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.”
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“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.”
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“I belong to a Bohri Muslim family, and for us, food is our biggest celebration. We are used to elaborate five- to six-course meals.”
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“Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.”
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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.”
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“Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.”
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“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”
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“We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Food is a passion. Food is love.”
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“You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.”
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“Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.”
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“Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.”
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“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
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“Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.”
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“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
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“Food is a lens for culture.”
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“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
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“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.”
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“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.”
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“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
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“In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don't eat any junk food - they taught me to appreciate good food.”
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“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”
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“The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.”
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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 do the same.”
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“It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.”
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“You don't know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can't pay their wages, can't buy their food. Hard times are when the autoworkers are out of work, and they tell 'em to go home.”
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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.”
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“My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.”
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“Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.”
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“American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.”
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“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”
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“For me, food is about generosity, and this should reflect on the plate as well.”
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“All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.”
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“People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.”
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“I hid myself in food.”
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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.”
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“Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.”
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“We're all so busy we don't make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.”
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“The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.”
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“After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.”
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“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
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“I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food.”
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“Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.”
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“Whatever I try to do, I always try to give it my best and try to be a killer because, at the end of the day, if you don't work hard, you are not going to get food on your table.”
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“The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.”
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“My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.”
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“We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.”
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“Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.”
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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.”
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“Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.”
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“We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.”
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“Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.”
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“Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.”
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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.”
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“Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.”
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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.”
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“Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.”
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“Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”
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“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.”
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“In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.”
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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
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“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.”
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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.”
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“The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.”
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“I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.”
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“Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.”
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“I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.”
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“Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.”
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“The Punjabi food has its own taste. It's not just about one food item but the Punjabi food is itself world-renowned.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.”
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“If people ate local and seasonal food they'd eat far better and cheaper foods and it would help farming in this country. There are far too many imported vegetables.”
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“It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.”
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“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”
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“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.”
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“While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”
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“I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.”
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“I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy… but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.”
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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.”
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“I think it's good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it's bad for you and for your brain. You don't understand why, but you feel sad. It's because of the junk food!”
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“Most people don't know where their food comes from. We're confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on?”
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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.”
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“Soul food is find the most healthy food you can get and make it as toxic as possible. Collard greens are good for you. Kale is good for you. Yams are good for you. But they no longer are good for you when you start pouring the sugar, the oil, the butter, all of those items that make it unhealthy.”
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“I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.”
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“I am a bit of a psycho when it comes to food.”
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“I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.”
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“I get way too much happiness from good food.”
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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.”
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“I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.”
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“What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.”
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“When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.”
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“I didn't know what freedom was. I didn't even know the word. I didn't know the concept. I never heard of that word, 'freedom.' To me, the happiest thing was having food.”
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“Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.”
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“Sharing good food with your children is the purest form of love.”
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“Patience is the secret to good food.”
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“I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.”
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“Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.”
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“My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!”
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“It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.”
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“The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.”
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“Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.”
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“Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.”
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“I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool - there's a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it.”
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“I'm not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.”
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“We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.”
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“I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.”
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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 life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”
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“I like my shame straight up and honest, and nobody does it better than In-N-Out Burger. You go to In-N-Out Burger, and they ask you the most shameful question in fast food. 'I'll have a burger, fries and a Coke.' 'Will you be eating in the car?' 'Yeah. I think so.'”
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“It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.”
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“I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.”
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“My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.”
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“I was 17 years old and missed many things about Barcelona, particularly the food. Fortunately, Sir Alex Ferguson realised my situation and helped me to grow. For me, the gaffer was like a second father.”
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“Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.”
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“For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.”
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“Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.”
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“Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.”
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“Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.”
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
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“I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person.”
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“Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.”
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“Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.”
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“I like going out to have street food without being disturbed. I like taking walks, but it's been so long since I've been able to do that. I miss feeling what I want to feel and walking around freely in crowded places.”
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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.”
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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 really performing its wonders.”
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“I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.”
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“Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.”
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“I've seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.”
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“Japanese culture? I kind of love everything about it. I love the food. Everyone's really nice. There's just a lot about Japan that's really cool.”
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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
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“It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.”
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“The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.”
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“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”
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“Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.”
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“When I am Naughty Chef, I'm definitely in focus mode, but once the food has been served I'm in a better place to party.”
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“Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.”
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“When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.”
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“You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.”
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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.”
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“The truth is that I'm not very disciplined with diets. In general, I do whatever makes me happy in life, and food makes me quite happy!”
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“I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.”
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“It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.”
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“My mother had a Spanish upbringing. She was an excellent cook. Everything was home-made. We didn't eat food with smiley faces on it. My Mum passed away in 1994. I miss her. I miss her cooking. It would be nice to have a meal with her again.”
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“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.”
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“As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you're part of the wilderness. That's why I like solo sailing. You can be macho, but at least you can be macho on your own.”
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“The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.”
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“If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.”
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“I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.”
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“I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.”
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“People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.”
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“I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.”
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“I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!”
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“I stick to a clean diet with lots of organic food and raw juices. Every now and then, I have a slice of cake or pizza, though; you have to have cheat days to keep you going.”
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“Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.”
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“The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.”
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“Eating good food is, to me, one of life's greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.”
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“If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.”
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“Use spices for flavor in food rather than adding a bunch of oils, fats, or sauces.”
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“When I went vegan, I just tried to make all my favorite nonvegan food vegan, and it worked!”
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“The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.”
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“One night, I was really beat; we worked really late and went to get food at some takeout place. And I leaned over against this gumball machine, just exhausted, and there was a SpongeBob looking back at me. And it's just, like, 'Oh, brother.'”
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“I avoid junk food and love vegetables, salads, and fruits.”
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“Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.”
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“You're never going to be bulletproof, but if you're feeding yourself good food and making sure you're eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.”
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“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
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“My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.”
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“The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place - the culture's lovely and gentle.”
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“In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.”
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“I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet.”
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“Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there.”
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“I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.”
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“We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.”
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“I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese - even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine.”
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“If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.”
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“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.”
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“I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.”
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“Every since my wife, Adri, got pregnant with our now-eight-month-old daughter, Alicia, I regularly get asked what my plans are for feeding her. How can someone who writes about food and tests recipes for a living meet the picky and precise needs of an infant without losing his mind?”
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“The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”
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“How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?”
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“My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.”
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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.”
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“For me, food is all about nostalgia.”
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“Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.”
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“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
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“We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children's health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people's lives were not valued the same.”
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“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”
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“Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.”
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“When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.”
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“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
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“True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.”
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“Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.”
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“The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.”
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“Organic food is the best for you, and I'm eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It's all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.”
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“You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.”
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“Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.”
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“At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.”
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“I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.”
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“I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.”
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“Home food is my only comfort food.”
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“Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.”
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“There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics - which is like Tourette Syndrome - OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.”
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“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”
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“If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.”
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“If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.”
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“To know a community is to know its food.”
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“On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.”
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“We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.”
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“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
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“Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.”
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“The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.”
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“We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.”
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“I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.”
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“In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food.”
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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.”
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“My dad is Chinese/Malaysian and my mum is Austrian, so food was always a big deal in our house.”
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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.”
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“Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.”
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“We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.”
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“Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.”
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“A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.”
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“I'm not a morning person. But it doesn't matter if I wake up at seven, eight, or noon, I'm still having breakfast food first thing when I wake up.”
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“What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.”
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“Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.”
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“Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.”
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“Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?”
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“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”
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“I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.”
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“A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.”
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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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“The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.”
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“Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!”
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“If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.”
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“Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.”
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“Junk food drags you down.”
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“On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.”
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“I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.”
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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.”
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“What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.”
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“Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.”
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“My siblings and I grew up on Indian food. My mother, though of Slovenian descent, learned to cook Indian delicacies for my father after their wedding.”
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“The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.”
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“Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don't go for sweet and trite food.”
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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.”
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“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”
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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.”
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“Im not the worlds greatest sea food chef, I just like fresh fish.”
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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.”
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“I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.”
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“I am a die hard fan of Lucknow food, so whenever I am in city I make sure to have the famous kebabs.”
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“Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.”
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“In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.”
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“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.”
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“I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.”
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“People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.”
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“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
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“Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.”
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“If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.”
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“I don't believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.”
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“If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.”
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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.”
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“We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.”
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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.”
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“If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.”
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“God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.”
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“I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.”
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“I give my roosters the best of food. I give them the best of care. I give them everything they want before I ask them to sacrifice. Get a rooster comfortable, and he'll fight his ass off. That's all I ask of HBO. They just can't see that.”
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“I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.”
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“I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.”
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“It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.”
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“Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.”
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“Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.”
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“My beauty secret is really three secrets: get eight hours of sleep, eat natural/organic food, and exercise regularly.”
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“I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.”
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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.”
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“Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.”
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“The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'”
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“Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.”
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“All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.”
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“In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.”
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“The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.”
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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!”
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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.”
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“If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.”
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“Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.”
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“You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.”
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“I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!”
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“The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.”
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“There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.”
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“Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.”
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“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”
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“There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.”
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“We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.”
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“Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.”
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“When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.”
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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.”
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“It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.”
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“Everyone's go to hate comments are 'Miss Piggy,' 'You're obese,' 'Keep shoving food in your mouth.' As these continued to grow, so did my weight.”
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“My mother used to pack me Filipino food for lunch, and I would get made fun of because of the way it smelled. Kids would make fun of me because of the way I looked and call me 'Ling Ling.'”
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“You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.”
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“The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.”
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“Every author has to eventually write a food book.”
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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.”
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“I have found out what I am allergic to, and I am trying to avoid that in my daily food intake.”
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“Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.”
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“Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.”
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“The world we live in is a multicultural one, but food is a great leveller, a universal symbol for friendship, a simple way of coming together as people.”
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“I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.”
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“For me, the good food starts with good product.”
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“Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.”
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“Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.”
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“The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.”
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“If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.”
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“In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our identity, and even verify the authenticity of everything - from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.”
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“You know the trait of a crocodile, don't you? It never hunts outside water. It always goes into the water to catch its prey. It never goes in the villages or in the bush looking for food. It strikes at the appropriate time. So a good guerrilla leader strikes at the appropriate time.”
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“The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”
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“My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.”
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“Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.”
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“Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.”
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“I get really mean or emotional if I don't have food in my system.”
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“Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.”
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“In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.”
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“I'm not opposed to a fancy meal, but I'll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.”
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“I don't cook very often but when I do I try and make Georgian food. I made a hinkali recently, which is like ravioli but is the size of your palm, with meat in the middle and thicker dough.”
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“I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.”
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“I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!”
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“My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.”
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“The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.”
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“I just love food, period.”
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“I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.”
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“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.”
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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.”
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“The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you're talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that's more food you've got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I'm good to go.”
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“In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.”
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“I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.”
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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?”
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“The things that make Korean food delicious are garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili powder, and chili paste. They make anything delicious.”
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“I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.”
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“Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food.”
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“I love home cooked Mangalorean food with all our coconut based gravies with different sprouts.”
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“I don't feel comfortable without certain things. I always want some money in my pocket to do whatever I want. Even if it's something like I want to eat food that costs more than what I got.”
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“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”
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“Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.”
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“The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.”
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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.”
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“I was always a junk food person, still am.”
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“The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.”
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“My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.”
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“Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.”
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“A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.”
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“If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.”
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“Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.”
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“Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.”
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“You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.”
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“I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.”
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“I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.”
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“I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America.”
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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.”
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“There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”
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“People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.”
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“I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.”
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“Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.”
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“I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.”
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“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.”
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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.”
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“My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.”
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“To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.”
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“For me personally, fitness is more about a lifestyle. It's not just about looking good but also doing stunts. For me, it's a 360 degree approach - whether it's working out, food we eat, sleeping on time, everything comes together to be fit.”
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“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
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“Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.”
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“Cocktails and food are social.”
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“In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.”
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“In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.”
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“The food I eat the most is probably steamed, plain white rice. I know its really, really, really boring, but that's honestly the food I eat the most. No, I like cucumber avocado rolls… I love that.”
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“I've prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well - as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, 'treat yo'self.'”
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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.”
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“When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.”
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“Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!”
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“You can set your intentions with your food.”
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“Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients continue to augment American industry without anyone quite knowing their makeup and possible toxicity. And that needs to change.”
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“I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.”
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“Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism.”
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“On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”
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“When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.”
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“People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.”
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“I love Punjabi food.”
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“Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.”
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“I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.”
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“In a way, movement is a lot like food. Once you understand how different types of movement nourish you, you can put together a menu of activities to keep you in balance.”
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“None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.”
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“Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.”
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“A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.”
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“Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.”
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“Slow food, free-range, no steroids, eat local, and natural winemaking are all part of a general yearning for simpler times. But the fact is that most winemakers these days, big and small, have drastically lessened the use of chemicals in the vineyard, embracing such concepts as organically grown, biodynamic, and sustainable.”
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“I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.”
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“There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.”
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“I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.”
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“I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.”
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“My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.”
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“My greatest weakness is… food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.”
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“I remember being in India one time where I saw people who were struggling to find food at the bottom of a trash can, and then I walked into my hotel and saw people arguing over how the quality of food at the buffet wasn't good enough.”
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“Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.”
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“I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.”
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“I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.”
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“You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.”
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“Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.”
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“Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.”
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“I'd say, in some ways, I'm very Bengali. I have a love of the arts - dance, music, visual arts - which I think is a very Bengali trait. I also love food, which I know is very Bengali!”
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“I suppose that Ive got to point out that 'Nomad Chef' is not about survival in the wild. It is about celebrating remote communities and their food with them.”
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“There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.”
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“Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.”
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“I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.”
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“The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.”
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“Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.”
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“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.”
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“My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.”
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“The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.”
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“Simply put, Cavemen's diet is a diet plan which suggest food eaten by the cavemen. Cavemen ate what was available - like meat, vegetables and a few nuts. What we grow for food is carbohydrates, and that leads to weight gain. I started this diet a few years ago, and ever since, I haven't had carbs at all.”
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“A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.”
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“My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.”
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“Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.”
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“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.”
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“Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.”
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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.”
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“I'm obsessed with food!”
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“I ate Bengali food after my parents married and Dad started living with us, in both Willesden and in Delhi for three years, and then we all moved to California. Dad said he could make a really good dal, but I never saw him cook during the whole time we lived together.”
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“There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.”
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“I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!”
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“Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.”
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“The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.”
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“Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.”
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“If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They put food outside your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer.”
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“Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.”
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“Eating street food in Bangkok is an experience.”
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“I love comfort food - it's the basis of everything.”
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“We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.”
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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.”
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“In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.”
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“People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.”
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“There is a section of people who love fast food kind of music but there is also a sizable number of people who love the good old music of the '60s, '70s and '80s.”
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“We were not rich. We did not go to the Cote d'Azur or skiing. Our only vacation was to the North Sea. I had to pay for my bicycle every month, but we always had food.”
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“There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.”
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“I was a real fast food junkie - KFC, McDonald's - but all the training kept it off.”
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“I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.”
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“I'm a healthy eater, but I don't consider Chick-fil-A fast food.”
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“Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.”
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“If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.”
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“Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.”
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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.”
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“The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.”
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“I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.”
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“I have always been a huge fan of Japanese culture, having grown up on Manga comics, their movies and food.”
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“I can't say this enough - the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you're stronger, you think more quickly.”
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“I'm such a Type A personality - when it comes to a road trip, I plan my food so far in advance. I roll hard with a cooler. I don't mess around. I want to avoid ending up eating fast food. I try to stay away from that.”
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“Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.”
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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.”
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“My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.”
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“When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.”
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“While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.”
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“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
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“When I was Belle, I was at the bottom of the high-school food chain. I was a freshman theater student. I was the antithesis of popular high-school student, literally hiding in this corner waiting to go onstage because I was so scared.”
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“I love food and I never skip my veggies.”
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“What's my favorite food besides pancakes? I guess it would be flapjacks, followed closely by hotcakes. After that, crepes… but thick crepes. Y'know, like, pancake-thick.”
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“Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.”
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“Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.”
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“Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.”
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“We'll continue to heal human bodies through biotechnology but we'll also increasingly feed, clothe and house the world through bioengineered systems. Ultimately, there's no reason why live animals should be used in any part of our food or goods chain and we're working to make that a reality.”
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“Where I live, I am surrounded by fresh, organic food, so I eat really well.”
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“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.”
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“As a kid, I remember my mother always experimenting with bizarre combinations of food such as gulab jamun and pickle! Surprisingly, many years down the line, I have adapted the same.”
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“When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?”
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“After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.”
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“Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops, and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.”
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“Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?”
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“I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.”
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“Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.”
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“People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.”
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“I don't believe that you should punish the people of Iraq because you don't like their leader. Saddam Hussein is not being punished. He's fat, and he is eating enough food and living in palaces. But his people are punished by denying them food and medicine.”
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“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”
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“I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.”
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“Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.”
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“In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.”
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“When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.”
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“I don't cook, I always order food or I go out.”
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“Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.”
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“I've always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there's bound to be a report that comes out that says, 'Broccoli actually… ' So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.”
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“To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.”
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“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”
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“Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.”
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“The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.”
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“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”
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“We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.”
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“Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.”
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“Nothing beats the food of Delhi.”
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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.”
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“I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.”
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“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”
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“Sri Lanka's interpretation of western cuisine is pretty diabolical. Sri Lankan food itself is ace, however, and they bloody love a buffet. Even if you go to a basic-looking cafe, they can knock up four or five different curries for you very quickly.”
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“It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”
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“Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.”
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“When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.”
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“We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.”
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“I love food.”
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“My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.”
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“I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.”
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“My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.”
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“Anthony Bourdain. He make the food, he make the world news. He know who is the real gold medal. He know what I can do. I know what he can do. He like the Jesus. He the best.”
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“Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'”
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“I'm every father. I'm not only a black father. I'm a white father. I'm a Chinese father. I'm a Mexican father. I'm all fathers that want their sons out of the house and stop eating up all the food. Get a job, please. Stop looking at the TV.”
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“I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.”
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“We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.”
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“However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.”
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“There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.”
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“Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.”
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“Why would North Korea people care if they have nukes or not? All they want is food. They want freedom.”
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“I was really surprised to learn that there is no food date label standardization, which contributes significantly to why we waste so much food, which generates methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas, in landfill, and means that we are using lots of land, water, fertilizer and energy to produce food that no one eats.”
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“What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.”
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“For me, personally, I love delicious food when I'm stressed.”
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“But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.”
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“I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.”
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“I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.”
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“I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.”
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“I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.”
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“The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.”
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“I'm vegetarian and my husband is not, so the one kind of commonality in our palate is that we both love spicy food.”
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“In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.”
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“Ice cream is my comfort food.”
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“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”
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“Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.”
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“My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.”
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“I never go fishing on a full stomach. If we are allowed to, we always eat what we catch. Were eating food as fresh as it can be.”
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“It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.”
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“High-quality food is better for your health.”
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“Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.”
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“Food justice must be incorporated into the city's long term and big picture planning efforts.”
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“Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.”
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“I would give my life if necessary to protect my children. I'm concerned with giving them the right food and clothes to wear… If they're exposed to homosexuality I might as well feed them garbage.”
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“I never tried to pigeonhole myself. I've been willing to take risks and try doing things like reality TV with 'The Bachelor' or Food Network or 'Good Morning America.'”
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“I don't really eat breakfast that often. I'm a bacon guy. I like breakfast food, but I don't really eat food until after noon, so by that time, that's not really breakfast.”
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“I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.”
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“I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.”
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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.”
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“Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.”
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“There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.”
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“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.”
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“I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.”
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“The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.”
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“You go out, you order a steak. What do they do? They bring you a salad. They don't even charge you anything for it, cause it ain't worth anything, cause it ain't food!”
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“I stopped eating carbs and red meat for a month and a half, and I was like, 'Oh, no, I lost my butt!' I have to eat potatoes and rice and meat to bulk up. But I do try not to eat too much fast food.”
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“I watched the 'Food, Inc.' documentary and was like, 'This has opened my eyes to the meat industry - maybe I should go vegetarian.' And my friend told me, 'Sadie, you're not gonna last a week.' But I'm very competitive.”
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“People imagine that Netflix sprang fully formed into a global streaming giant, but Netflix might have been personalised sporting goods - or customised shampoo - or even pet food, since these were all ideas that I pitched Reed Hastings in those first months.”
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“Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.”
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“I just started using this app called Wine and Dine. It's like Instagram, but only for food. You post what you're eating and follow your friends, and then you can say, 'I wanna try that,' and so when you go on your 'wanna try' list, it'll tell you where it is.”
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“What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be talking about how are we gonna feed the kids at school.”
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“I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.”
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“I'm obviously very hippie-like, and I'm always in a different city and town and country, and I thought, 'Why is it that the big food chains are always so promoted? I want the whole ingredients. I don't want preservatives. I want what this town and these farmers produce and see how their chefs create.'”
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“If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.”
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“People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.”
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“A mother cooking exclusively for her child might be preparing just rice and buttermilk, but it will be immensely tasty. Fast food, on the other hand, may be very tasty, but it has not been prepared exclusively for you, you see.”
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“I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.”
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“I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.”
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“Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.”
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“I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.”
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“All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.”
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“In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.”
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“The food in Mathura is authentic and delicious. Mathura is famous for its Chana Chidwa which was my cheat snack for the two days I spent there.”
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“It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.”
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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.”
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“My life as a mother had been one of skipping meals, always saving the 'good' food, like fresh fruit, for the kids I told myself deserved it more than I did.”
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“From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.”
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“Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.”
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“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.”
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“The weather is the worst. I lived many years in Lisbon and then went to Monaco, places that are similar in terms of weather and food. In Manchester, it's eight or nine months of cold, and that makes a difference, but apart from that, I'm really enjoying the city.”
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“Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.”
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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.”
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“My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.”
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“I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.”
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“When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.”
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“Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.”
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“If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching - greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate.”
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“I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.”
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“In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.”
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“I'm a big fan of the beard oil. It really keeps it soft. I use the beard wash too because my wife is really on me to make sure there's not all types of bacteria and food left up in there.”
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“I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.”
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“I'm so proud, from the food to the women to the curves. I just need to learn a little more espanol.”
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“Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communication and support, but you don't have to deal with the realities of paying bills together, or being annoyed when they leave the toilet seat up or don't put the food away in the fridge.”
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“Great wine is always enhanced by great food.”
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“I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'”
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“Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.”
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“I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!”
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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.”
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“I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.”
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“When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein.”
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“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”
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“A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're witnessing now more and more is a certain number of mega-trends interacting with one another: population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, and conflict.”
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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.”
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“Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.”
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“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.”
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“I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.”
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“Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.”
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“I am particularly fond of Malaysian food but strangely its not that well known in Britain.”
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“On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.”
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“Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like through crafts, or through food.”
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“I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning.”
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“Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.”
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“I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table… During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.”
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“I need to stay disciplined on the road. Too much food can wreck your palate.”
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“I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.”
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“The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.”
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“There was a Greek restaurant, the only place we could get Italian food. All of us Italians and many others from other parts of Europe used to go there, and Rajiv and his friends also. Some of his group knew some of my group, and we met just like that.”
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“I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.”
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“A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.”
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“Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.”
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“A symbol in Chinese Buddhism is the lotus plant, which regenerates every year, symbolizing life, renewal, and the Buddha himself. Actually it is used in many Asian religions including Hinduism. Few people think of it as food even though it is used as an ingredient all the time.”
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“I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.”
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“'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.”
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“Health food makes me sick.”
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“Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.”
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“I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.”
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“I'm at the top of the food chain.”
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“I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.”
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“We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.”
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“In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.”
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“Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.”
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“If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.”
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“My nickname was Tarzan: I found my food in the jungle; I hunted birds.”
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“I think very early on, my sisters and I understood the value of nature and what it can do for us, and that we are part of nature. Even if we are all seemingly intelligent beings and we're at the top of the food chain, that doesn't mean that we have to remove ourselves from nature.”
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“I like to refer to my small social circle as 'boutique.' And much like the hotels of the same ilk, my friends are all unique, high quality, and serve me good food. But more than that, they teach me things about the world and about myself that I couldn't learn anywhere else.”
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“I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.”
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“Well, my mom is Japanese. She moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager. And so, her food is - she did all of the cooking at home for the most part.”
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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.”
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“Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.”
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“I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go together so well. Cooking is very therapeutic. That preparation, the fragrance of spices, the wafting aromas - it just sweeps aside my depression, tiredness and name what you may.”
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“I like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.”
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“I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.”
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“After I moved to Atlanta is when I tapped into doing music. I came to ATL my junior year of high school. It was a really big culture shock, but I loved it. I love the culture. I loved my people: our food, our music, our aesthetic, everything. So it was a pretty easy and natural switch. Super welcoming.”
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“In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.”
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“Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.”
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“The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.”
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“A lot of people believe Italian food is tasty because there are a lot of ingredients. But they don't understand that the reason why it's tasty is because there are less ingredients than in any other cuisine.”
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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.”
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“Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.”
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“Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.”
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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.”
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“I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.”
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“Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.”
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“People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.”
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“To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.”
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“In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.”
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“The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'”
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“Savoury food is for main course, and fruit is for pudding.”
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“I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.”
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“Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.”
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“Chennai has always been special to me. I love the food here and people are so warm.”
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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.”
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“My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.”
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“Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.”
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“What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.”
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“Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.”
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“At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.”
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“Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.”
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“I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.”
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“I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.”
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“When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.”
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“I think it's fun to serve comfort food because it's an instant ice-breaker. If somebody's expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren't going to come out.”
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“I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.”
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“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”
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“There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.”
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“I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.”
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“It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.”
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“If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
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“Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.”
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“My cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: 'I don't usually eat your kind of food, but for you, I ate it.' I haven't got a clue what he'd eaten but he asked me to cook for his wedding feast when he married Jennifer Flavin at Blenheim Palace.”
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“My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.”
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“When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.”
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“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”
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“I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.”
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“When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.”
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“Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.”
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“The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'”
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“The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.”
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“When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.”
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“You know what's so crazy? I had never wanted to do videos anyway. I never wanted to do anything with food.”
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“We want to make the old fast food model irrelevant. We want to make great ingredients and classic cooking techniques accessible to everybody.”
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“People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'”
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“When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.”
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“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”
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“Don't build a bar for yourself. Build it for your customers. It's all about them: the walls, the finishes, the textures, the food, the beverages, literally everything has to be for them.”
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“My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!”
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“I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.”
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“Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.”
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“We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.”
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“Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.”
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“Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.”
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“I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.”
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“Whenever I am feeling happy or sad, I always find comfort in food.”
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“My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.”
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“The processing and preparation of food can transform a kosher item into a non-kosher item.”
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“We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.”
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“The sharing of food is the basis of social life.”
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“Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.”
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“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
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“All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.”
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“It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.”
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“Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.”
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“Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.”
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“I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.”
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“Being a Punjabi, it is very hard to say this, but Punjabi food is very overrated.”
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“The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.”
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“So, I've got to have food, I've got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show's really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.”
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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.”
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“Food is language. It helped me to open up the conversation on other things.”
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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.”
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“We are not blessed with junk food - my family and my kids do not eat fast foods.”
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“People have travelled through the Caribbean islands for all sorts of reasons and left their imprint in the DNA and the food.”
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“When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.”
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“Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.”
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“I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.”
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“People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.”
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“Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.”
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“It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.”
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“Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.”
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“If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection.”
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“But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.”
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“Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.”
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“I juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.”
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“We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.”
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“The right use of food can end hunger.”
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“A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.”
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“It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.”
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“I want us to be intentional about being good to ourselves, and sometimes our food is a way we treat ourselves, but we need to be intentional with what we put in our bodies and mind.”
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“Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.”
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“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”
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“I used to think of Mexican food as a once-in-a-while type of thing because it can be so heavy, but I learned how to lighten it up easily and keep it just as flavorful. That's awesome, since it's the perfect festive dinner for hanging out with friends on a relaxed night.”
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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 I wish I was able to grow my own food.”
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“I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.”
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“It may seem counterintuitive to some people to take an entire morning or afternoon to prepare food for the week, but believe me, it's not. You'll even find that you eat much healthier when you've planned your meals ahead.”
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“I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.”
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“I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.”
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“Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.”
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“If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.”
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“Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.”
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“Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.”
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“My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?”
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“What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.”
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“Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.”
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“With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do 'The Hunch.' I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don't, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow.”
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“I think my content has a responsibility to bring light every day, whether it's in laughter, whether it's in inspiration, whether it's through food.”
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“If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.”
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“I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.”
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“Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.”