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• I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  House, Way, Kind

  Joyce Meyer (2004). “Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Stuff, Culture

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• We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

  Robert Mugabe

  Want, Enough

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

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• Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Television, Information, Bypass

  "Murdoch and China". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2003.

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• I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

  Rachel Nichols

  Get Up, Plates, Overflow

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.65, PublicAffairs

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• Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

  Mehmet Oz

  Nuts, Long, Easy

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• We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

  Steven Pinker

  Heaven, Fleas, Dry

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Judging, May

  The Rape of the Lock canto 3, l. 21 (1714)

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• I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

  Josh Radnor

  Sound, Directors, Thrill

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

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• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

  Eric Ries

  Fall, Zuckerberg, Class

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• My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

  Marco Rubio

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Marco Rubio's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2012.

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• The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

  Jerry Saltz

  Italian, Feelings, Looks

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• The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

  Paul Samuelson

  Hands, Survival, Elbows

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1973). “The Samuelson sampler”

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• What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

  Neal Schon

  Guy, Ends, Bunch

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• I left home because I was hungry.

  Red Skelton

  Home, Left

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• Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking

  Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

  Rod Stewart

  Chinese, Meals, Hours

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• Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!

  Angie Stone

  People, Giving, Waiting

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• When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

  Ratan Tata

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Looks, Economy

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• My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.

  Jesse Ventura

  Morning, Attitude, Tired

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• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Television, Literature

  "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.

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