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• Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

  Samuel Fuller

  People, Twists, Medical

  "Fictional character: Cathy". "Shock Corridor", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
  this view.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Children, Mean, Pride

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.

  Pol Pot

  Ifs

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• Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.

  Dan Glickman

  Years, Kitchen, Environmental

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• So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

  Megan Fox

  People, Scandal, Journalist

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• Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.

  Amy Johnson

  Tired, Waiting, Trying

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

  Tony Robbins

  Determination, Self Esteem, Emotional

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Luxury, Numbers, People

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Character, Writing

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• There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Children, Wine, Feet

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• And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

  L. Tom Perry

  Sick, Affliction, Riches

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• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Long, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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• I've never stayed at a bed and breakfast. If I did, I figure you would start to get hungry! "Is that all you got around here? Well, maybe you can direct me to a chair lunch dinner."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lunch

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• I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Parrots

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• You know when you go into a restaurant, and it gets busy and they start a waiting list, and they start calling out names, "DuFresnes, party of two." They say again, "DuFresnes, party of two." But then if no one answers, they'll just go to the next name, "Bush, party of three." Yeah, but what happened to the DuFresnes? No one seems to care. Who can eat at a time like this? People are missing! And they're hungry! That's a double whammy! "Bush, search party of three!" You can eat once you find the DuFresnes!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Party, Humor

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• I was just in London - there is a 6 hour time difference. I'm still confused. When I go to dinner, I feel sexy. When I go to bed, I feel hungry.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Sexy, Confused

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

  Paul Walker

  People, Trying, Counting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Over You, Trying

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Q&A Session, www.contactmusic.com. January 5, 2009.

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• And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Ironic

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

  Marjane Satrapi

  Civilization, West, Hunger

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Bags

  "George Lopez". www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2007.

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