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• Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Coffee, Mean, Romance

  Patti Stanger, Lisa Johnson Mandell (2009). “Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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• Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Environment, Ecology

  "Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.

  William Esrey

  Ends, Aggressive

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• What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Hamburgers, Ifs

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• Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

  Mark Twain

  Tea, Dinner, Insult

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• Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.

  Warren Beatty

  Girl, Charity, Ugly

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• I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry.

  Jean Simmons

  Long, Forever, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Growing Up, Thinking, Atlanta

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain.
  Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rain, Rap, Order

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• A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Fun, Tired, Parent

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• They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Class, Remember You, Remembers You

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• For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Fighting, Age

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• In the course of my day, I'll probably go through four pairs of shoes! I start the day in flats.I'll change into some mid-range heels because if I typically have lunch speeches. Then, I'll drop down to a pair of kitten heels for a couple of hours to rest my feet and legs, before I change for the evening into my hall shoes.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Couple, Shoes, Feet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Goodbye, Honesty, Mean

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• I'm not a functional person because I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties but I never do that. I'm not really human.

  Fiona Apple

  Party, People, Goes On

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Littles, Fruit, Enough

  Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  Stephen Hawking

  Said, Ultimate, Universe

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full

  Nicole Polizzi

  Crazy, School, Trying

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• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  Camilla Belle

  Coffee, Guy, Apologizing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, Light, Pace

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• I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Coffee, Gay, Night

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• A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.

  Frank J. Prial

  Writing, Wine, Typewriters

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