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.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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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.
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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.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'
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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.
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There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.
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All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
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It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.
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Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
