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"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."
Joseph Hume
"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."
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"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food."
Alexandra Paul
"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food."
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"My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats."
Kenny Loggins
"My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats."
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"I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting."
Anna Chlumsky
"I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting."
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"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."
Andrew Weil
"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."
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"I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems."
Ann Veneman
"I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems."
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"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food."
Marc Wallice
"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food."
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"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."
Samuel Richardson
"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."
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"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite."
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite."
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"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."
Paul Auster
"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."
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"I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city."
Emeril Lagasse
"I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city."
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"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
David Byrne
"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
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"Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol."
Carre Otis
"Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol."
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"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."
Jeremy Rifkin
"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."
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"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Poppy Z. Brite
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
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"As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me."
Debi Mazar
"As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me."
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"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."
Patricia Ireland
"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."
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"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food."
Frank Howard Clark
"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food."
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"I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food."
Julian Clary
"I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food."
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"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
Edward Thorndike
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
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"I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living."
Ursula Andress
"I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living."
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"I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing."
Andrew Eldritch
"I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing."
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"Food should be fun."
Thomas Keller
"Food should be fun."
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"Italy will always have the best food."
Diane von Furstenberg
"Italy will always have the best food."
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"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
Johnny Carson
"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
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"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
Luigi Barzini
"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
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"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children."
Bob Filner
"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children."
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"When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food."
Phil Collins
"When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food."
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"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food."
Linda M. Godwin
"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food."
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"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
Clifton Fadiman
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
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"I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own."
Lauren Ambrose
"I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own."
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"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
Ralph Merkle
"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
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"Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?"
Emeril Lagasse
"Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?"
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"Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina."
Jo Bonner
"Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina."
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"If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant."
Mickey Gilley
"If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant."
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"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food."
Kevin Richardson
"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food."
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"From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands."
Alice Hamilton
"From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands."
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"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
Frank McCourt
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
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"I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually."
Cameron Diaz
"I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually."
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"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
Sally Ride
"The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."
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"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
Edward Dahlberg
"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
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"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
Orville Redenbacher
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
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"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."
Anish Kapoor
"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."
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"No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy."
Carmen Electra
"No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy."
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"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."
Michael Stipe
"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."
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"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
Giacomo Casanova
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
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"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
Ken Hill
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
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"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."
Georges Simenon
"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."
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"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."
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"We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex."
Marilu Henner
"We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex."
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