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"I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit."
"I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on their. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay too."
"The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us."
"I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991."
"The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered."
"'I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'"
"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables."
"As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat."
"He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes."
"Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?"
"I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin."
"In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on."
"Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead."
"Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate."
"I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
"Be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away from those Night-Clubs and MEDITATE."
"Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment."
"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."
"What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy."
"It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last."
