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• I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

  Warren Christopher

  Wish, Meetings

  1994 On beginning talks in Beijing with China's Prime Minister. In the NewYork Times, 13 Mar.

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• I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

  Tamora Pierce

  Character, Taught, Stumps

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.81, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

  John Scalzi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

  Joanne Fluke

  Lakes, Eden, Too Late

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder”, p.79, Kensington Books

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• As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Kings, Jobs, Talking

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Garden

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• I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their thing. I don't like to speak to them. I don't like to have lunch with them. I don't like to socialize with them. I don't like to hear their ideas.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, People, Actors

  "Woody Allen Discusses ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. October 16, 2010.

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• George: Why've you had a grudge against your brother for 15 years? Benny: We Lopezes are a proud people... George: You have a birthday lunch at Denny's every month. We're not that proud!

  George Lopez

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Morning, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Hippie, Self, Crooks

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Talking, Sandwiches

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

  Jaegwon Kim

  Philosophy, Real, Real Life

  Jaegwon Kim (2000). “Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-body Problem and Mental Causation”, p.60, MIT Press

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Vegas

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• Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

  Donita K. Paul

  Team, Kale, Evil

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Waiting, Yards

  Letter to Margaret Anderson, 1941.

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• When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard
  of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

  Sarah Dessen

  Football, Team, Laughing

  "Sarah Dessen and Regina Hayes". Interview with Regina Hayes, www.slate.com. June 7, 2013.

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• You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

  Jimmy Breslin

  Baseball, Morning, Jobs

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• My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, Order

  "Julia Roberts interview: 'I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."

  Julie Bowen

  Sorry, Hate, Home

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Happy, Divorce, Dumb

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• I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

  Jolene Blalock

  Children, Kids, Childhood

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• I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.

  Yony Leyser

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within". Interview with Paul Hawkins, www.outsideleft.com. March 2010.

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• A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

  Mark Twain

  Clever, Law, Judging

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• There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

  Elaine Stritch

  Long, Long Time

  "Honoring two society women: Pat Buckley and Kitty Carlisle Hart" by Eric Konigsberg, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2007.

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