882 private quotes tagged food

“I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.” — Ted Allen

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“But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.” — Carol Burnett

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“My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.” — Michael Stipe

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“Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.” — Ted Allen

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“It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.” — Samantha Morton

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“I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.” — Mark Hyman

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“There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.” — J. Donald Walters

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“People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.” — Jason Aldean

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“There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.” — Debi Mazar

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“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.” — Rod Blagojevich

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“As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.” — Barry Commoner

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“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Do not allow watching food to replace making food.” — Alton Brown

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“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” — Joyce Carol Oates

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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

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“I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!” — Hugh Laurie

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“I hid myself in food.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.” — Alton Brown

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“I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.” — Alton Brown

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“I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.” — Alton Brown

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“I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.” — Alton Brown

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“I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.” — Alton Brown

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“You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.” — Alton Brown

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“I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.” — Christina Ricci

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