Eric Schlosser Quotes

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

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• Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Respect
  • Make A Difference

• I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Nation

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wrong
  • Doors
  • Philosophical

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Work
  • Reading

• I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Democratic

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Children
  • Confidence
  • Child

• All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Great
  • Want
  • Look

• I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Everybody
  • Extent

• We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Long
  • Decision

• When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Love is random; fear is inevitable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fear
  • Random

• 'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Truth

• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I told a big investor in The New Yorker - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`Bill Shawn pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Mistake
  • Writers
  • Complain

• There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  

  David Mamet

• I've been really fortunate to be associated with all these great shows.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Great

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Healthy

• Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

  

  Eric Schlosser