Meals quotes
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"I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied."
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
"Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up."
"When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal."
"One can say everything best over a meal."
"... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is."
"Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously."
"I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer."
"Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace."
"People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare."
"Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal."
"If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you're no longer hungry between meals because you've cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I've seen this with thousands of patients."
"Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day."
"Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little."
"Wine makes every meal an occasion."
"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."
"There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal."
"Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
"Ham with mustard is a meal of glory"
"You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together."
