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"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
Carlo Collodi
"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
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"We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day."
Mario Batali
"We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day."
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"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
Raymond Chandler
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
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"The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food."
Rob Mariano
"The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food."
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"We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in."
Ann Veneman
"We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in."
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"One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off."
William Irwin Thompson
"One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off."
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"They are the video equivalent of junk food."
John J. O'Connor
"They are the video equivalent of junk food."
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"Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic."
James H. Douglas
"Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic."
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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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"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."
Tom Sizemore
"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
Charles Baudelaire
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
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"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children."
L. Neil Smith
"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children."
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"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
Clifton Fadiman
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
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"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate."
Michelle Trachtenberg
"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate."
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"When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us."
William Feather
"When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us."
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"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."
Peter Ruric
"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."
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"You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality."
Amy Irving
"You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality."
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"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
W. C. Fields
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
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"I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth."
Kristen Bell
"I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth."
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"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food."
Star Jones
"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food."
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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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"We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it."
Ray Kroc
"We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it."
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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 will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help."
Mohamed Al-Fayed
"I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help."
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"I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras."
Poppy Z. Brite
"I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras."
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"My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me."
Nana Mouskouri
"My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me."
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"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."
Robert M. Pirsig
"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no 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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"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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"High-quality food is better for your health."
Michael Pollan
"High-quality food is better for your health."
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"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
George Will
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
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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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"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."
Rocco DiSpirito
"Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position."
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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."
Thomas Keller
"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."
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"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."
Robert Mondavi
"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."
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"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
James Thurber
"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
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"If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!"
Kelly Clarkson
"If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!"
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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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"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons."
Ralph Merkle
"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons."
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"I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter."
Sally Schneider
"I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter."
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"In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers."
Jose Serrano
"In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers."
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"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry."
Bob Filner
"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry."
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"Penn State is a leader in food science."
Don Sherwood
"Penn State is a leader in food science."
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"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
Shmuel Y. Agnon
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
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"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting."
Bob Woodward
"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting."
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"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."
Paul Prudhomme
"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."
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"To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected."
Geraldo Rivera
"To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected."
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"The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill."
Bryan Miller
"The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill."
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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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"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
Steve Guttenberg
"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
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