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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

- Bette Davis

I don`t know how to cook and there`s so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I`ll just order some take-out.

- Famke Janssen

(After his first screen test) The studio guy told me, "Kid, you have no future in this business." I said, "Why?" He said, "When Tony Curtis first walked onscreen carrying a bag of groceries -- a bag of groceries! -- you took one look at him and said, `THAT`S a movie star!`" I said, "Weren`t you supposed to say, `That`s a grocery delivery boy?`"

- Harrison Ford

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn`t have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you`re going to make a bad movie, you`re going to make a bad movie.

- Michael Madsen

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

- Stephan Jenkins

I`m so simple. If I don`t have groceries, I eat popcorn and Tang for dinner.

- Tyra Banks

The thing is, you have to plan ahead. You pay on Monday in cash or money order and pick them up on Thursday. I know I`ll be shopping for groceries every week, so I can plan for that. Christmastime is another easy way to do it.

- Christina Moore

With me, a career was the simple matter of putting groceries on the table.

- James Cagney

I can`t even pay the rent out of that. Nobody can survive on $5.50 an hour. We all need to pay rent, buy groceries and take care of our families.

- Mary Miller

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: `Is this all?`

- Betty Friedan

Mythical money does not buy groceries, gas or pay medical bills.

- Randy Miller

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

- Andrea Oakes

Anyone who`s tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

- Andrea Oakes

I guess it beats bagging groceries at the corner store,

- Andrew Velasquez

There are many times more cell phones and pagers than computers, and once hackers get into a consumer device at any level, they can initiate communication, ... My pager can run programs. Imagine what will happen when your refrigerator is Internet-enabled for ordering groceries.

- Austin Hill

These funds may be awarded to applicants of U. S. military families who are in need of assistance with housing, utilities, medical expenses, groceries, clothing, school supplies and other expenses deemed necessary in order to provide them with some support and alleviate their need,

- Awa Reeder

With everything else going up, light gas and water rates are up, groceries are up, property taxes are up. We`re in no position to give anything up.

- Bari Meltzer Norman