“I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.”
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“My friend James Morris heads the World Food Programme, whose task it is to feed the hungry. He recently told me, "If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry."”
Nobel lecture (2005)
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