Lunch Quotes - Page 8

• With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Regret, School, Vegetarianism

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• I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

  Joseph Epstein

  Phones, Two, Three

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Night, Play, Racquetball

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• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Greek, Firsts, Ifs

  "Ari". Book by Peter Evans, 1986.

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• You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

  Diane Cilento

  Running, Fun, Home

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• I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Class

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• I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Husband, People, Important

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• In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

  Leon Askin

  Morning, Coffee, Meat

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

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• I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

  Jose Mourinho

  Christmas, Father, Years

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• If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

  Bill Anderson

  Doors, Picnics, Participation

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• What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

  Arthur Laffer

  Christmas, Father, Government

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• It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stuff, Beard, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

  Sydney Brenner

  Travel, Morning, Home

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• Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, Phones, Interesting

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Topics, Remains, Bites

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

  Mae West

  Sex, Taken, Love Is

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

  Saffron Burrows

  Laughing, Together, Machines

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• I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

  Chaim Potok

  Break Up, Long Walks, Wife

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• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  Ikue Mori

  Art, Thinking, Sound And Music

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• I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, People, Brain

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• I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

  Lydia Lunch

  Would Be, Found, Humiliated

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• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  Lydia Lunch

  Beautiful, Female, May

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• I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

  Lydia Lunch

  Optimistic, Ends, Knows

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• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  Lydia Lunch

  Mad, Busy, Sympathetic

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• The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

  Ving Rhames

  Differences, Quality, Dinner

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

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