Food Quotes
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I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.
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Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.
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Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.
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Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
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Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.
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I normally don't eat junk food.
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Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.
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English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
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Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.
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You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.
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A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
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Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.
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I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.
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I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that?
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I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.
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I love American food, but I also love Latin food.
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My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.
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France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.
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I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.
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Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.
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The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
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I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.
