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• It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Punishment, People

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.

  Ryan McGinness

  New York, Silly, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

  Denzel Washington

  California, Zimbabwe, House

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.

  Michael Pollan

  School, Frozen, Movement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Tea, Theatre, Afternoon

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.

  Mindy Kaling

  Breakfast, Bigs, Get Real

  "Mindy Kaling's Real-Life Dating Adventures, The Mindy Project, and SO Much More". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I do know this: other countries are eating our lunch.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Eating, Other Countries

  "Trump on dismantling Obama's legacy: 'No, no, no'" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2016.

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• Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area.

  Karl Pilkington

  Holiday, Tapas, Goes On

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• When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Cutting

  "Dividend Voodoo". Article by Warren Buffett, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2003.

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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Pastor

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

  David Mamet

  Fighting, Years, Training

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all morning, stop and have lunch, and then, photograph all afternoon. I didn't think that I had to wait for some inspiration.

  Thomas Roma

  Photography, Morning, Jobs

  Interview with Alex Klein, Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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• At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Night, Jumping, Dining

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• I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

  Martha Stewart

  Nice, Water, Tea

  "My List: Martha Stewart". Interview with Emily Cronin, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 11, 2013.

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• When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Done, Bernard Shaw

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• Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

  Soulja Boy

  Rap, School, Kids

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• I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we’re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week...

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Fda

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.

  John Christy

  Talking, Kyoto Protocol, Trying

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• When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."

  Bill Murray

  Hurt, Drinking, Feet

  "Wonderfully Animated Rare 1988 Interview with Bill Murray" by Joey Paur, geektyrant.com.

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• I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.

  Danny Fox

  Horse, Writing, White

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  A. N. Wilson

  Morning, Monsters, Active

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