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"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."

"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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"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."

"When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food."
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"There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in."

"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."

"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea."

"Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect."

"If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic."

"One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot."

"The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding."

"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing."
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