100 Quotes About Coffee

Coffee lovers know that a cup of joe can do so much more than just get you through the day. It can be a life-saver, give you good ideas, and even save your life. It’s no wonder we love coffee so much and have such strong feelings about it. On the other hand, we also know that coffee can be one of the most divisive topics on the planet Read more

We’ve gathered some of the best coffee quotes, from funny to wise to motivational to inspire you to drink up and enjoy your morning jolt.

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in...
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Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. Charlotte Eriksson
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Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care. Unknown
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As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be? Cassandra Clare
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by...
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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. Terry Pratchett
I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't...
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I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. Brian Andreas
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have...
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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? Jean Kerr
A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the...
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A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray. Marcia Carrington
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I'm not everyone's cup of tea, because I'm a kick butt cappuccino with extra milk fluff and chocolate sprinkles! Unknown
She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.
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She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces. Adelise M. Cullens
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You taste like the last drop of whiskeyat 3 amafter a lousy daylike the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a deskhot and bitterlike the burning at the back of the throatafter the first cigarette You taste, boy oh boy, like my next mistake. Malak El Halabi
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will...
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I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen. Gary Larson
I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf...
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I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know? - Charlie Robyn Schneider
Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning
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Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning Munia Khan
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The kiss is different than I expected. It’s slow and tender, his lips soft and warm against mine. He tastes sweet, like the powdered sugar I spilt and the coffee with chicory he’s always drinking. It’s a perfect first kiss. D.L. Hess
Two dreams and a cup of coffee later.
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Two dreams and a cup of coffee later. F.K. Preston
C is for coffee. Coffee would always be there for...
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C is for coffee. Coffee would always be there for her. Cassandra OLeary
The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake.
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The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake. J. Limbu
What do you want?
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What do you want?"" Just coffee. Black - like my soul. Cassandra Clare
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The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks. James Mackintosh
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His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon Jen Archer Wood
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You wake up and feel a sudden sadness that you never felt before. You try to find a reason behind it but you cannot. You think coffee might change the feeling. So you make yourself a hot cup of coffee and put on the music player. Do you feel better now? Avijeet Das
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Our daily habits — honorable and dishonorable, noble and ignoble, vital and vile — are revelatory. Our sense of self is fashioned partially by what we employ to crank us up in order to charge through every day, or stated otherwise, what vices we partake of and what substances we are addicted to using. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Never say no to coffee M. Cesar
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Just fuck me up. A caffeine-addict placing an order with the barista. Julie Johnson
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He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead. Ljupka Cvetanova
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Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffee Too bad both are a luxury. Saleem Sharma
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I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more. Kevin Sinnott
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Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no. Andrew Smith
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Please don't talk to me like I'm crazy. I've been accused of personality disorders enough this week, thanks. You know I've slept with girls before and didn't get attached. Pat Shand
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I think much of a #writerslife is figuring out how much coffee is needed to fuel madness & creativity while avoiding having to pee. Jennifer Worrell
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I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism. Abigail Reynolds
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Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself, and when the husks are discarded, they lie on the road and rot and disappear. Actions are what lie inside, like the bean. David Bergen
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There's no mistaking what kind of potion I need. Caffeine - for alertness and rejuvenation. Amy Alward
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Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy. Bryanna Plog
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I should never do anything pre-coffee. 'It was only a teeny fire, ' I told my uncle over the phone. Cindy Brown
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Cup of JoeThere's nothing like a cup of joe, when the morning's grey and grim and slow, when the streets collide with the world outside, when litter lies where lilies grow. Just drink that smoking cup of blackand feel your feelings surging back. Plus, spill a drop and a coffee shopwill sprout up from a sidewalk crack! Bo Burnham
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No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled. Robert Aickman
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Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes. Ankita Singhal
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Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to know that you could have something even though it was only a cup of black and bitter coffee. Betty Smith
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The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other. Himmilicious
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They were learning that New York had another life, too – subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city – a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. Malcolm Cowley
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You can’t exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one… the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee with our cream. Thomm Quackenbush
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If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I’d eat dirt, ” I said, “at least dirt isn’t overpriced."~ Beans~ Garrison Kelly
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey
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I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one sid Sting
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...having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither of them talking much but each coming to the general conclusion that the other was a person rather like himself... Unknown
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I envythe cup of coffeethat getsto kissyour sleepy lipsawakeevery cold andbitter morning. Sade Andria Zabala
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I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order. Emmie Lee Dean
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I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order Emmie Lee Dean
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Coffee, he insisted, has all but destroyed the plague in England. It preserves health in general and makes those who drink it hearty and fat; it helps the digestion and cures consumption and other maladies of the lung. It is wonderful for fluxes, even the bloody flux, and has been known to cure jaundice and every kind of inflammation. Besides all that, the Englishman wrote, it imparts astonishing powers of reason and concentration. In the years to come, the author said, the man who does not drink coffee may never hope to compete with the man who avails himself of its secrets. David Liss
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It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups. Jodi Picoult
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Some poems frothand foam and rise...out of my morning cup ofmist-sweetened coffee. Sanober Khan
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I need coffee to deal with this, and I’m not getting decaf. Matthew Arnold Stern
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There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person’s appearance that you’re about to pump for info. Ruth Bainbridge
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You need some coffee, don't you?"" Yes, I've only had a gallon. John Grisham
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I ordered a single espresso because I wanted a drink I could hook up with. Randy Kagan
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These days, “getting lucky” means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it’s still HOT! Tanya Masse
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There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix. Amal ElMohtar
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Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day. Kilroy J. Oldster
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I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper. Ryan Lilly
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I’d like to THANK whoever saw a bunch of cherries and thought.... H E Y! ! If I dry out a bunch of those berry seeds, call them “BEANS”, smash them and add hot water, it will be AWESOME! Tanya Masse
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I’d like to THANK the genius who saw a bunch of cherries and thought.... H E Y! ! If I dry out a bunch of those berry seeds, call them “BEANS”, smash them and add hot water, it will be AWESOME! ! ! ! Tanya Masse
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Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled. Bryant Simon
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But one day you're going to wake up to the smell of a friend making burnt toast and warm coffee, and you're going to smile with relief knowing you made it. Knowing somebody found ways to love you. Vanessa Hogg
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State: 'It's a pleasure to be here' and offer a cup of coffee. Unknown
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Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping Bobby Darnell
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The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness. Isra
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The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia. Antal Szerb
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Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life. Sunday Adelaja
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Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first. Lita Burke
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The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter. Leo Tolstoy
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It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. Malcolm X
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I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt. Brandon Sanderson
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Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the smell of fresh coffee fills the air. These people do not live at my house. Amy Petrie Shaw
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Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life. Nanea Hoffman
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I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong. Audrey Assad
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She tasted of coffee and day old poetry. R. Y.S. Perez
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The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish. Eoin Colfer
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'Venti caramel macchiato, please, ' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.' The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.' 'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.' S.W. Vaughn
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Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink. Scott Lynch
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Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing. Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror. A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick.” (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey) Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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…Get me a cappuccino, with toasties, flavored in Jalapeno.”“Anything special for the cappuccino?” He asked, the waiter chivalrous.“ Follow the ideal doing, grind the beans just before brewing. Use spring water, for softened water, makes a horror. A parley perfect, between the coffee, and the milk, with some, brown sugar thick.” (Poem: An apology of a coffee lunatic, Book: Ginger and Honey) . Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening. Julie Roberts
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I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees. Max Schneider
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.' Gary Oldman
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I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool. Graham Elliot
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I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it. Nick Kroll
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Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in. Christopher Koch
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. Anton Du Beke
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I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours. David Mixner
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I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. Alastair Reynolds
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I have to have coffee in the morning. Olivia Culpo
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When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
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When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care. Shenae Grimes
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I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly. Bipasha Basu
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It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show. Kelsea Ballerini
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know. Ice Cube
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Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up. Jack LaLanne