Eric Schlosser Quotes
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
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Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.
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Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.
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I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
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I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
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Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
