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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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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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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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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Things as they are have been destroyed. Have I? Am I a man that is dead At a table on which the food is cold? Is my thought a memory, not alive? Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood And whichever it may be, is it mine?
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We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
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Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
