Eric Schlosser Quotes
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing 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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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
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The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.
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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
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The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
