Beef Quotes

• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Doe, Environment

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

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• I ain't got no beef with nobody.

  Kevin Durant

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

  Shel Silverstein

  Believe, Food, Hands

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• For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

  Steve Albini

  Air, Coke, Bread

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• Beef is the soul of cooking.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Cooking, Soul

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• Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Fighting, Iron

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

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• You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

  Charles Dickens

  Scrooge, May, Potatoes

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Dining Table

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

  Anatole France

  Life, Love Is, Mustard

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.28, 谷月社

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Friendship, Food

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

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• No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

  Joe Bastianich

  Simple, Dressing Up, Cooking

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• Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

  Tom Robbins

  Cutting, Magic, Using Words

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• Mustard's no good without roast beef.

  Leonard Marx

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  "Fictional character: Chico". "Monkey Business", www.imdb.com. 1931.

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• I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

  Sasha Cohen

  Food, Vegetables, Iron

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• A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Life, Baseball, Dog

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Decision, Trade

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

  James Lovelock

  Land, Environmental, Eating

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• We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Father, Sleep, Night

  "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

  Debi Mazar

  Girl, Nice, Turkeys

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

  Helen Fielding

  White, Tomatoes, Sandwiches

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

  Eric McCormack

  Lying, Coffee, Home

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• But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Decision, Shipping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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