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Food Quotes


"For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight."


"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'"


"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."


"The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it."



"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."


"There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price."


"Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes."


"I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy."


"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
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"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs."


"We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated."


"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."


"One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all."
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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."
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"One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment."


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


"When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?"


"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."


"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy."


"When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do."
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"Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine."


"Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice."


"I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron."


"Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings."


"I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part."
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