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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food - I don't want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don't want the Kraft cheese, I want the niche cheese.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020