Eric Schlosser Quotes

It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Now

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Work
  • Man
  • Earth

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• The British public has a strong sense that the situation of the civilian population in Gaza is intolerable and must be addressed - and we agree with them.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Strong

• Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Human
  • Slavery
  • Questions

• In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

  

  Bernard L. Schwartz
  • Success
  • Mistake

• I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

  

  Jean Reno
  • School
  • Friend
  • Drama

• It's not a question of McDonald's vanishing from the face of the earth. It's a question of these companies assuming some more responsibility for what they're selling.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Earth
  • Question
  • Responsibility