"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."

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"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Food, Humor, Truth, Life, Economy

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Key

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

Food,

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

Food, Sin, Crime, Enjoyment

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

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"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."

Movies

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."

School

"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."

Winning

"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."

Mother

"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."

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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

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"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."

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"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."

"I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry."

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."

"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."

"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh."

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."