J Dilla Quotes

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

I would always sneak in the refrigerator and eat seconds, and underneath my bed - you know, I had my own bedroom - it was littered with Twinkie wrappers and Jolly Rancher wrappers. And I would sneak-eat, because I was denied food, not because I was hungry, but because my mom and dad did the best they could in 1970 and '71 and '72.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Hunger is the best pickle.

It is not a pleasure to be here. It's an embarrassment that we come so late, and that there are so few of us here.... It's an embarrassment that so much of the media are missing. They are more concerned with someone who drinks too much, when we are trying to deal with the issue of millions of people who are not eating at all.

No one has starved.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

I've never had time for friends. I've always worked too hard.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least eight hours a day, every day. My health suffered for it - I was losing sleep and not eating properly.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.