Eric Schlosser Quotes
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
Quotes to Explore
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
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Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.
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Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
