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• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  House, Ashes, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

  George Burns

  Sex, Fun, Ninety

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sex, Desire, Bed

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  A. N. Wilson

  Morning, Monsters, Active

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• No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.

  Julian Baggini

  Exercise, Choices, Arbitrary

  "Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2010.

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• I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

  Carrot Top

  Cooking, Needs, Dinner

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• I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

  Anne Carson

  Teacher, School, Years

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• Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Nice, Piano

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• I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Mother, Useless, World

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• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  Jack Dorsey

  Brother, Stupid, Useless Things

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• You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fundraising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fundraiser. And have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

  Jack Abramoff

  Giving, Hamburgers, Steak

  "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

  Creed Bratton

  Mom, Fall, Kids

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• My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Mother, Father, Eight

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• I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

  Constance Jablonski

  Fashion, Morning, Thinking

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• Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

  Caroline Knapp

  Order, Psychics, Cake

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• Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Girl, Humble, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

  Rory McIlroy

  Morning, Light, Play

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Daily Tasks, Dinner, Return

  "Oscar Niemeyer Talks About Brasilia, Communism, Regrets". Interview with Michael Luongo, www.bloomberg.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Kids, Want, Organize

  "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!

  Frederick Lenz

  Soul, Force, Thrive

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• I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

  Mona Simpson

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

  Leslie Mann

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

  "Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd Talk THIS IS 40, Turning 40 Themselves, and Preparing for Awkward Scenes". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 16, 2012.

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• There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

  Olivia Williams

  Tents, Three, Absurd

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• I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.

  Preet Bharara

  Dinner, Bigs

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• A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

  James Hunter

  People, Noise, Fly Away

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business

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