Lewis Black
Comedian, Actor, Author
"You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned."
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Pork
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Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother."
Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O."
Anthony Bourdain
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!"
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"TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive."
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"While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork."
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"This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)"
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"Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up."
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"First the pork chops, then morality"
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"I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"
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"The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it."
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"Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork."
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"Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped."
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