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• Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Snacks, Hiking, Water

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Sunday, Soul

  "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.

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• You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

  Michael Douglas

  Couple, Nice, Littles

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2007.

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• I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.

  Rachael Ray

  Years, Two, House

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• Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

  Christopher Buckley

  Reading, Men, Giving

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• If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza. I love a slice when I'm in NYC, but it's like eating a Slim Jim compared with a filet mignon. One slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie.

  Nick Offerman

  New York, Nyc, Pie

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• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Schemes, Wells

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• I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Dust, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

  Plautus

  Grief, Stores

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Successful, Simple, Two

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• You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Two

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• It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Mystery, Window

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

  Joseph Hall

  Horse, Fall, Oxen

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• The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

  Rebecca West

  Morning, Food, Mean

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• A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Greed, Bigs

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Caviar, Fame, Knows

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• I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Mean, Corn Flakes

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• Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong, Moss, Enough Time

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, Lakes, Soup

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

  Mary McGrory

  Beautiful, Country, Kindness

  Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Simple, Making Love, Doe

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• If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Helping Others, Men, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

  Dan Millman

  Missing

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.134, ReadHowYouWant.com

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