Eric Schlosser Quotes
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
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The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!
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Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?
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Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders.
