- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lunch Quotes
A pause in the middle of the day.
This collection includes a firm environmental promise to hold polluters accountable in court rather than over a friendly lunch, alongside an almost absurd complaint about a missing cork. Related reading is in Day.
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up at 6 A.M., and sometimes I make lunch for my two youngest kids. Usually my oldest sleeps late, and I get my kids out the door to school. For years, it was me just doing all of that and then driving to a carpool or this or that.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020