Eating Quotes - Page 23

• I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

  Steve Albini

  Cute, Hate, Cooks

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• People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

  Jason Aldean

  Wall, Night, People

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• If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Environmental, Meat

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• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

  David Bailey

  Drinking, Exercise, Body

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• There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Knives, Forks, Cooks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

  Kristen Bell

  Sunday, Comforting, Nachos

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• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Italian, Japan, Talking

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• I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Rodents, Bugs

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• I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dog, Cat, Trying

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• My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

  Tom Brady

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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

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• Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

  Jeff Bridges

  Exercise, Ice Cream, Ice

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• I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Baby, Pregnancy, Vegetables

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• I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.

  Brooke Burke

  Feels, I Can, Ifs

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• I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.

  Nicolas Cage

  Reading, Men, Thinking

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• You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Years, Turkeys

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Oysters, Literature

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• No matter where I am, especially when I'm on tour around the country, Caesar salad is my standby. In a random city and eating in random to-go restaurants, you're kind of scared about trying things, but you can always count on a Caesar salad.

  Sasha Cohen

  Country, Cities, Trying

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• Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

  Joan Collins

  Coffee, Exercise, Tuna Fish

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• I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

  Lauren Conrad

  Healthy, Burgers, Found

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• When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  Ice Cube

  Cutting, Blood, Trying

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  Rachel Cusk

  Epidemics, Eating Disorder, Female

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• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Powerful, Fighting, World

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