Eric Schlosser Quotes
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
