William Hazlitt Quotes
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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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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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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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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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.
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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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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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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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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
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Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
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I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
