"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 are grateful."

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"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 are grateful."

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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."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country."

Ann Veneman, American Public Servant

Food, Country, Will, Yesterday

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front."

Norman Borlaug, American Scientist

Food, War, Fighting, Losing

"I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

Food, Life

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

Mary Antin, Russian Activist

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"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Food, Wedding

"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."

Billy Joel, American Musician

Food, Music, People, Being

"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."

Norman Borlaug, American Scientist

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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

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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."

"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country."

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

"I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front."

"I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life."

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."

"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."

"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."

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"There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment."

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"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."