Hungry Quotes - Page 21

• My success was the shock of recognition, probably, rather than the quality of the work. I mean, the quality may have been fine, but there's a lot of fine work out there. It was the fact that I was doing something that at that time, nobody else was doing, except for say, Mort Saul out in San Francisco on The Hungry Eye, and "Second City" was emerging out in Chicago. Nothing in print. It was basically happening in cabaret and nothing in fiction. And certainly nothing in New York in cartoons.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mean, Eye, Work Out

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." But it's rubbish. Absolute rubbish. A huge amount of your work is done when you're not at your desk. Knotty problems that you need your unconscious to solve. So it can be helpful to walk away and focus on other things and it can be helpful to be a bit harassed in your daily life, to be hungry for time to write.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Baby, Art, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift - not wanting to write personal stories because people are hungry in not necessarily great ways for the sexy, sexy, sex work story. I was trying to shift the focus, and journalism was the tool I needed to write about people outside my own life and range of experience.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Sexy, Writing, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves on the planet, 70% of the food we eat is imported ... that there are 700,000 families in extreme poverty who go to bed hungry every night.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, Night, Poverty

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Jim Jones used highly-edited videos and photos of Jonestown, showing what a supposed Eden it was. People were interviewed smiling and working in the fields, telling other church members to hurry down and join them. These interviews were staged; the people were told exactly what to say. Truth is, Jonestown never even produced enough food to feed everyone, and people were going hungry.

  Julia Scheeres

  People, Church, Truth Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture that drives down the price it paid for food that it buys from farmers, who are the poorest people. Then you're paying very little for food. You're underpaying the poorest people in any society. Then they're marketing to us the things that are most profitable to them. And those are the things that are packaged and processed and what-have-you. That means you have the simple thing of the explosion of obesity and hunger as a result of capitalism in our food system.

  Raj Patel

  Mean, Simple, People

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• In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

  Brit Hume

  People, Literature, Want

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• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Men, Worry

  Washington Irving (1842). “A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published”, p.157

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• Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

  Janet Jackson

  Weight, Littles, Eating

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• A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

  Chuck Jones

  Hungry Lion, Together, Lions

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.166, Macmillan

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• I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

  Jay-Z

  Kings, Thinking, Trying

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• A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

  Salman Khan

  Running, Hungry Lion, Lions

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• I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Awards, Want, Hunger

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• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pie, People, Scarcity

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Artist, Years, Long

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• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

  Charles Kuralt

  Morning, Kids, School

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• If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Simple, Pasta

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• Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Running, Divorce

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

  Michael Landon

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

  Spike Lee

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Political, Mass

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• As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  "Wonder Woman feature of the week: 'Bri'". Interview with Monika Tournaud, www.mometc.com. June 15, 2015.

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• You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

  Loretta Lynn

  Swimming, Salmon, Spawn

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.43, Vintage

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• You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

  Bob Marley

  Men, People, Significant

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• I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

  George McGovern

  Children, School, Long

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