Meat Quotes - Page 19

• When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Way, Clean Slate, Metropolis

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eggs, Use, Tendencies

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Moving, Differences

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• I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

  Charles Dickens

  Reflection, Sheep, Mind

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• It ain't my cup of meat.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Cups

  Song: The Mighty Quinn, Album: Self Portrait, 1970

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• Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.

  Chick Willis

  Making Love, Heat, Obesity

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• I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

  Taylor Momsen

  Real, Writing, Needs

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

  David Ayer

  Real, Writing, Time And Change

  Source: collider.com

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• When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Lions, Ants

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

  Ernest Howard Crosby

  Numbers, Would Be, Vegetarian

  Ernest Howard Crosby (1904). “Tolstoy and His Message”

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• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat.

  David Letterman

  White, Culture, News

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• PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's really the most important part of what I do. Don't Eat Meat! Don't Wear Fur! I mean, there are so many other options these days.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mean, Animal, Important

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• I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!

  Tiger Woods

  Girlfriend, Giving, Dinner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Deeds, Christ

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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• I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Girl, Skins, Why Not

  Quoted in Jean Renoir Renoir, My Father (translated by R and D Weaver,1962).

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• You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

  Ben Cross

  Jobs, Character, Gentleman

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• Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Denmark, Cheese

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• Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

  Epictetus

  Speech, Drink

  Epictetus (2015). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, p.82, Booklassic

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• The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dark, Light, Black

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• Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Perfect, Soul

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.

  Jane Goodall

  Important, Today, Roles

  "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating". Book by Gail Hudson, Gary McAvoy, Jane Goodall, 2006.

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• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

  Zhou Enlai

  Years, Pieces, Able

  To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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• How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Vegetables, Impossible

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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