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• I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

  Jim Parrack

  Dream, Teacher, School

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• There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Blow, Light

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.139, Fawcett

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• To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

  Elbert Hubbard

  Income, Fixed, Small Things

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

  Robert Southey

  Mind, Disease, Taste

  Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

  Plutarch

  Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him

  Richard Laymon

  Hurt, Heart, Thinking

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• Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

  Ralph Lauren

  Down And, Come Up, Knots

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Hate, Flying, Mere

  "This much I know". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2008.

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• The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Brain, Surroundings

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• I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

  M.I.A.

  Media, People, Car

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Determination, Home

  "Veroniva Mars Season 3: Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas talk" by Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. July 18, 2006.

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• Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing Money, Brain, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

  Jennifer Grant

  Sleep, Phenomenal, Bonding

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

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• Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Age, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.413, Manonmani Publishers

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• When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.

  Demi Lovato

  Running, Thinking, Mirrors

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• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Food, Rose, Cooking

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Essence, Cooking

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• It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Nice, America, Brain

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.273, Bantam

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• It's really hard for me to remember all of the places that I've been but I can remember all of the delicious meals that I've ever eaten. I love traveling by way or stomach...and finding quiet time.

  Sarah Kay

  Meals, Way, Quiet

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