Food Quotes
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The richest people are those who have life arranged so they have food for the family and the rent or mortgage paid. After that, at least in my case, it can become a pretty boring existence if wealth is the only objective.
Gary Burghoff
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Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.
Jason Mraz
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Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.
Jose Andres
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
Kate Christensen
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Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
Christine Pelosi
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
Emanuel Celler
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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
David F. Houston
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Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.
David Autor
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
Naomie Harris
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
Philip Sidney
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I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
Chow Yun-Fat
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
A. S. Byatt
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The morning slips away in a Valium haze and catalogues,And numerous cups of coffee,In the afternoon the weekly food is put in bags - as you float off down the high street.The shop windows reflect, play a nameless host to a closet ghost -A picture of your fantasy, a victim of your misery...
Paul Weller Incognito
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Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
Samuel Lover
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I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.
Elizabeth Berg
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Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.
Danny Meyer
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I used to walk to Altman's on Saturdays for lunch at the Charleston Garden, which had a coconut cake that is still my favorite food in the world.
Adriana Trigiani
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New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.
Steven Adams