Quotes with food)

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  • Bobbie Ann Mason 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.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Britney Spears When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bee Wilson When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Cary Fowler Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Woody Allen Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jim Rohn Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Paul Theroux You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Bob Marley 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.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Carre Otis You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Anne Dudley You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • J. P. Donleavy But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Robert M. Pirsig Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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