“I actually met Larson [Paine] on Larchmont in Los Angeles. He was eating and he stopped me because I was massaging my larynx. I was doing a show and trying to loosen up my throat. He had sort of this southern vibe about eating alone and talking to people. And it was funny because I had just having eaten with Larry O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin.” PeopleTryingShowsTalkingMetsEatingLos AngelesThroatSouthernLarryPaineEating Alone Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsPaperEatingDoctorsWineCheese Author:Feist
“I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.” PeopleYearsTwoLastsGuyFeetCrazyDogWalkingEatingDesertTwo YearsHungShortsBare FeetFours Author:Lykke Li
“More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!” PeopleWorldGivingArtArtistSupportEatingMusicianBallsSpendingLeisureArt WorldCerealSpending MoneyLeisure Time Author:Brian Chippendale
“The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it.” PeopleKindI CanIdeasTroubleFansEatingCamerasHamburgersTaking PicturesImaging Author:Rachelle Lefevre
“I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.” PeopleYearsDifferentReasonAmericaCultureBlackWorstEatingMusic IsEnglandSlaveryChineseRanAggressionBlack And WhiteIntegrating Author:Muhammad Ali
“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.” PeopleTryingHumansHas BeensSaidSidesSuccessfulTakenSourceBearsEatingCreatingIndependentSpeciesAvailableListsInstanceRegulationThreatenedBoth SidesGarbageEndangered SpeciesGrizzliesYellowstoneGrizzly Bears Author:David Quammen
“If you've ever been in the West Wing, it's like a little rabbit warren. Everybody's crammed in there on top of each other, and you're eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the mess with people. And so you really get to know each other very well. So, I think they just weren't worried.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsLittlesEatingWingsWestDinnerMessWorriedBreakfastLunchRabbitsEating Breakfast Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingGovernmentHurtInformationPlanetsTenEatingRootsBuyingConvinceCentsReverseManipulateConsumingCheaper Author:Billy Corgan
“There are so many people out there living a life they don't want to live. They either are eating the food they don't want to eat, that doesn't serve them, or they're in a job that doesn't serve them and what they're really good at in the world, or they're in a situation or relationship where it's bringing them down.” PeopleWorldWantJobsSituationEating Author:Vani Hari
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.” PeopleKidsUsedFeltWaterAnimalDogDadCreaturesEatingCatTwentiesMy DadFishesFishingVeganPanicCat And Dog Author:Dan Mathews
“Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.” PeopleHurtEatingCarefulHopefullyDietsBe Careful Author:Ziggy Marley
“It's so important that people get tested and find out what they're allergic to, because they might be struggling with their weight or health issues and not realize that they're actually just allergic to the food they're eating.” PeopleImportantMightRealizingStruggleIssuesEatingWeightTestedAllergicHealth Issues Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasDifferentShowsActionBrainBabySceneEatingTrainAvailableObservationPreparingNotebookSubwayYogurtTripping Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsCountrySupportEatingLabelingGmos Author:Jon Tester
“I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating, but there was this one thing that seemed to be in a lot of soups and things there - I always called it pond scum. It looked exactly like the green stuff that floats on top of a pond. I would say, "Oh my God, this has pond scum in it!" I would eat it, to be polite, because we were usually with Japanese people and I didn't want to gag or spit it out or anything. And I still don't know what it was.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantStillsStuffHellOne ThingEatingGreenJapanPoliteSoupFloatsSpitPondsScumGags Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.” PeopleProblemRealizingEatingDisorderEating DisorderBingeBinge Eating Author:Demi Lovato
“People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to us from within our shared morality, but engaging in something more like "persuasive definition." They want us to look at the world and ourselves in a different way. Someday these prohibitions against flying and eating meat may be written into our moral psychology, but it will only be after there are viable, widely shared alternatives that are beginning to be widely adopted.” PeopleWorldWayWantLooksMayDifferentMoralPsychologyWrittenMoralityEatingDefinitionsFlyingAlternativesAppealsMeatDifferent WaysSomedayEngagingAdoptedWant UProhibitionPersuasiveEating Meat Author:Dale Jamieson
“I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.” PeopleThinkingStillsCultureProcessMiddleCenturyEatingCellsMeatFactoriesSyntheticEating Meat Author:Dale Jamieson
“The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.” PeopleAmericaLeftWaitingInterestingFiveEatingCome UpSquaresLots Of MoneyMcdonaldsMtvSomething InterestingEyeballs Author:Chrissie Hynde
“If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.” PeopleIfsStoriesCultureGenerationsCommunicationEatingFundamentalsPainfulPicklesPersonal Stories Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentEnvironmentAirEatingDestroyedBreathingGet Away Author:Bette Midler
“Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHeartTwoCountryGovernmentEatingVictimTerroristOppositionLos AngelesRebelTowersSeptemberNationalityOpposingTwo Towers Author:Bashar al-Assad
“There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"” PeopleIfsIdeasMatterUseProblemBodyWaterPayToo MuchEatingDrinkingYour BodyMessSmokingSugarMarijuanaModerationCocaineCanalsDuhDrinking Too Much Author:Frank Zappa
“People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.” PeopleThinkingRealHealthyEatingBrownGrainRiceReal FoodGenetically Modified Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“A lot of people have come to Krishna consciousness through prasadam. I mean, this process is the only kind of yoga that you can actually practice by eating.” PeopleKindMeanProcessConsciousnessPracticeEatingYogaKrishna Author:Mukunda Goswami
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"” PeopleIfsEatingYeahBoxingTonightCheatingSaladBurgers Author:Gigi Hadid
“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayCountryHelpingFormOne ThingEatingEmptyFunctionHungerDietsIngredientsSteadyChipsCookiesAffordableCaloriesCorrelationSodaMalnutritionObeseInexpensiveNoodlesRamen Author:Lori Silverbush
“When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindStatesEnoughPlayUsedNightThreeHoursFourFrontsCollegeListeningEatingDrinkingUniversityEastBarsBeerFour YearsBellsChipsJarsPlaying MusicQuarterbackTennesseeBarbecueDrinking BeerStoolsTacosTaco BellIgnore MeEast Tennessee Author:Kenny Chesney
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.” PeopleKnowsFeelsTryingMadeSchoolUsedTurnsFunBoysKnowingEatingCoffeeDisorderFeel BetterBatsEating DisorderOystersStop TryingDoughnutBingeBeignets Author:Richard Simmons
“I feel like talking to people who don't tour, when you talk about touring - obviously we're super blessed and very lucky to be doing what we do - but there are so many weird things that could never happen anywhere else. When I talk to people who don't tour they look at me like I'm being bratty and complaining about this job that I have. It's not that! It's the fact that when I'm home I can exercise every day, I can cook myself good meals, then when I'm on the road for a long time it's like, "There's a Subway. I guess I'm eating a bowl full of lettuce because I don't eat McDonalds."” PeopleFeelsLooksLongI CanFactsHomeHappensJobsTalkingExerciseLuckyEatingLong TimeBlessedComplainingCooksMealsBowlsLook At MeTouringSubwayMcdonaldsWeird ThingsLettuceGood Meals Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I think a lot of people get into what they're eating. Yes, it's important, but at some point, let's think about what we're feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you're eating and the exercise that you're doing. I think it's good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you're feeling when you wake up in the morning.” PeopleThinkingImportantFeelingsBitsMorningIssuesExerciseEatingWake UpControl Issues Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.” PeopleRealLove YouEatingSingingI RealizedChampionJerk Author:Karin Slaughter
“The "natural" instincts when someone is going through a breakup are counterintuitive to healing. For instance, many people stop eating or eat very unhealthy, and if your body is not fed the necessary nutrients during this trying time, it's extremely difficult for you to heal emotionally. So, first things first, force yourself to eat, even if that entails drinking green smoothies so you're getting nutrients in your body.” PeopleTryingDifficultNaturalHealingEatingDrinkingInstinctHealBreakup Author:Amy Chan
“People always talk about what they do the night before, but to be totally honest what you do the night before isn't going to make a huge difference in how you look. Maybe eating a giant burger and being bloated would make a difference, but other than that it's the lead-up. For me it's always about trying to consistently maintain a fit and body-conscious eating schedule so three days before I'm not like, Oh my God, I have a bathing suit shoot I have to do.” PeopleTryingNightHonestFitEatingMaking A DifferenceConsistently Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“Remember, one in every five people in America goes hungry and there are certainly a whole lot of folks who are getting three meals a day who do know where their next week's food is coming from who are very sensitive to this issue who would like everybody to be fed. Add to that the number parents who have children in schools who would like their children to be eating healthy, wholesome food and don't want sugary sodas or chocolate milk to be chuggable at any moment of the day by their kids.” PeopleChildrenMomentsKidsSchoolRememberParentHealthyEatingHungrySensitiveChocolate Author:Andrew Zimmern
“Globalization in part means that a lot of people are walking into the room and in some cases becoming influential or even dominant voices in the conversation. Sometimes they are like party-crashers coming in and pushing people around, scooping up the valuables and eating up the food in the frig - bribing political leaders, undermining traditional economies and the ways of life that are interwoven with them, replacing them with new economic models that effectively exploit developing countries for their labor and resources.” PeopleMeanCountrySometimesPoliticalLeaderEconomyEconomicWalkingEatingLaborGlobalizationInfluential Author:David Wong
“I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.” PeopleLaughingEatingCheerMaking People Laugh Author:Judy Greer
“In general, working on a horror movie is no different than working on any movie. Turn the camera around and there's 20, 30 people standing around, eating doughnuts, smoking cigarettes between takes, working, like any other set.” PeopleDifferentHorrorEatingSmokingCigaretteDoughnutSmoking Cigarettes Author:Lindsey Haun
“Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. And I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful. I do a lot of yoga. There's more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingGuyEatingYogaRight ThingHelp MeHelpfulGymRight TimeManipulateLifting Author:Nick Youngquest
“I think many people think competitive eating is a really disgusting sport, so people think they look bad normally. But I care about what I'm wearing. I don't want to be someone who is doing something that is considered gross and then also look like a slob.” PeopleThinkingCareSportsEatingDisgustingI CareGross Author:Takeru Kobayashi
“That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.” PeopleMomentsFunEatingMeetingsMake Sense Author:Rene Redzepi
“For Coca-Cola, they wanted a hippie-looking girl to walk around the city with a bucket of chicken sitting in Central Park, sitting on Central Park South, walking along all these different areas of New York that people are familiar with, and just eating this bucket of chicken. I got that commercial too. I think it was just part of my personality that was different from just a regular, nice-looking girl that was more of a model-y type. I injected a little more energy into everything I did.” PeopleThinkingDifferentGirlEnergyPersonalityWalkingEatingFamiliar Author:P. J. Soles
“Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.” PeopleFilmEnjoyWorryWalkingEating Author:Dan Castellaneta
“I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.” PeopleThinkingEnoughEnjoyDangerousEatingSmartIntelligentDumbSmart PeopleTequilaDumb People Author:Joel McHale
“You got guys that are so old, you see them eating lunch, the drool's just coming from their mouth, and they're sending around memos about 10 percent crosscuts. If I had one tenth of their money, I would be free. They don't know what freedom is. It's a disease. You're one of the rare people that is given freedom, and what do you do with it? You don't live. You choose to be dead in life. Money buys freedom. I mean why is this guy with the slobber worried about taking food off other people's tables? His $19 billion won't get him from where he is to the grave comfortably? That to me is a disease.” PeopleMeanGuyEatingWorriedYou Choose Author:Nick Tosches
“I think there are two ways of eating, or cooking. One is restaurant food and one is home food. I believe that people have started making food that is easy that you want to eat at home. When you go out to a restaurant, you want to be challenged, you want to taste something new, you want to be excited. But when you eat at home, you want something that's delicious and comforting. I've always liked that kind of food - and frankly, that's also what I want to eat when I go out to restaurants, but maybe that's me.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindHomeI BelieveEasyEatingCookingExcitedSomething NewComforting Author:Ina Garten
“Being a doctor, I worry that the patient may be uncomfortable about sharing something. It could be sexual dysfunction, an eating disorder, depression, domestic violence - these are serious topics many people don't want to talk about. I'll try to follow up with questions like: How are things at home? How's work? But we don't always have time to probe. Don't be afraid to bring up the important things going on in your life, even if they don't feel 'medical.' Your doctor would rather know than not know.” PeopleTryingImportantHomeWorryViolenceSeriousEatingPatientUncomfortableDomestic ViolenceEating Disorder Author:Danielle Ofri