- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hungry Quotes
On hunger that drives both survival and ambition.
These quotes use hunger in two registers, first as a literal, urgent problem tied to poverty even in wealthy places, then as a metaphor for the drive to be part of something significant. One older line compares hunger to a wolf circling a herd for its chance. Continue with Desire quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always stayed hungry.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020