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Life's Pleasures Quote by Star Jones

"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food"

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Star Jones is selling a fantasy and accidentally confessing the catch. The first clause, "I can get whatever I want to eat", is pure access-language: choice, convenience, abundance. It’s the celebrity perk framed as self-determination, a subtle flex that lands because food is where everyday life feels most constrained. Then she swerves into the messy truth: "and when you, you know", the verbal stumbles functioning like a publicist-free moment where the polished narrative slips. What follows isn’t a moral lecture about nutrition; it’s a portrait of how modern schedules hack the body.

The subtext is that privilege doesn’t cancel chaos. If anything, having "whatever" on tap can make eating less intentional, not more. "You forget to eat" is doing a lot of work: it signals busyness as status, but also a kind of disconnection from basic cues. The punchline, "you sometimes pick up fast food", punctures the glamorous assumption that famous people live on curated salads and private chefs. It’s a recognition that fast food isn’t just a "bad choice" - it’s a system designed for people who are tired, late, and running on adrenaline.

Contextually, Jones comes out of a media ecosystem obsessed with women’s bodies, appetite, and self-control. The line reads like defensive candor: don’t judge the drive-thru; judge the pace of life that makes it feel like the only option.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jones, Star. (n.d.). I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-get-whatever-i-want-to-eat-and-when-you-you-102232/

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Jones, Star. "I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-get-whatever-i-want-to-eat-and-when-you-you-102232/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-get-whatever-i-want-to-eat-and-when-you-you-102232/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Star Jones (born March 24, 1962) is a Entertainer from USA.

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