Red Meat Quotes

• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Food, Men, Meat

  "The Best Lines From Gwyneth Paltrow's New Cookbook". Interview with Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. March 19, 2013.

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• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  Walter Willett

  Zero, Vegetarianism, Data

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• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Funny, Food, Health

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• They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sick, Red, Saws

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• People are essentially red meat. They are.

  Max Cannon

  People, Red Lipstick, Meat

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• If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

  Robin Wright

  Sleep, Cutting, Next Day

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• I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

  Sarah Chalke

  Years, Fish Tanks, Meat

  "Interview: The Cast And Crew Of Scrubs". Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. May 9, 2006.

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• You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Meat, Red, Resolution

  "Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk new Netflix series W/ Bob & David". Interview with Ariana Bacle, ew.com. November 11, 2015.

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• The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans.

  Jay Leno

  Philosophy, Meat, Fur

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• For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

  Curtis Stone

  Vegetables, Balance, Important

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• I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

  Bernadette Peters

  Meat, Red, Sun

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

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• The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

  Ziggy Marley

  Taken, Blood, Meat

  PETA2 Intreview, www.peta2.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!

  Tommy Smothers

  Blue, Meat, Green

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Meat, Want

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• When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great.

  Steve Albini

  House, Meat, Red

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• I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Vegetables, Fruit, Meat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

  Dean Ornish

  Night, People, Red

  FaceBook post by Dean Ornish, MD from Mar 12, 2012

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• I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

  Robert E. Howard

  Real, Wine, Blue

  "Queen of the Black Coast". Short story by Robert E. Howard, 1934.

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• How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?

  Howard Dean

  Party, Faithful, Meat

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• Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

  Herman Melville

  Dog, Fighting, Animal

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.327, Velvet Element Books

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• Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.

  Peter James

  Wine, Beer, Grace

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• I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Son, Rome

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