Eric Schlosser Quotes

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

Eric Schlosser

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• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Power
  • Guardian

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Space
  • Leader
  • Content

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • People
  • Country
  • Control

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Wrong
  • Guys
  • Hot

• My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Doing

• We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Choice

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Value

• I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Home

• I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

  

  Maya Angelou

• I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

  

  John Oliver
  • Trying
  • Daily

• Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Great
  • Insurance
  • Pool

• As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Food