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• So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

  Megan Fox

  People, Scandal, Journalist

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• Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.

  Amy Johnson

  Tired, Waiting, Trying

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Character, Writing

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• There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Children, Wine, Feet

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• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Long, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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• I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lunch

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• I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

  Paul Walker

  People, Trying, Counting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Over You, Trying

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Q&A Session, www.contactmusic.com. January 5, 2009.

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• Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

  Marjane Satrapi

  Civilization, West, Hunger

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Bags

  "George Lopez". www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2007.

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• Whether I'm flying two hours or across the country, I always make sure to have a packet of almonds with me, an apple, and a Luna bar. I carry those around on a daily basis in case I'm stuck somewhere or hungry.

  Heather Mitts

  Country, Apples, Two

  Source: preview.www.realbeauty.com

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• I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Thinking, Progress

  Barack Oba,a's remarks in a video posting, announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, January 16, 2007.

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• It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

  Rankin

  Names, Important, Honest

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

  J. Stalin

  Liberty, Employment, Imagine

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mean, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

  Anna Friel

  Machines, Fats, Silliness

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Caves, World

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• Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

  Dorothy Dix

  Women, Kissing, Want

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• I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
  I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
  I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
  Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
  Never this broken.

  Suheir Hammad

  Gun, Order, Broken

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• It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

  Carl Safina

  Trying, Doe, Albatross

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• Hungry ears are sharp ones.

  Jane Smiley

  Ears

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• A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

  John Cassian

  Father, Self, Eating

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• The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Want

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• The eyes are hungry but often satiated before they see.

  Otl Aicher

  Eye

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