Eric Schlosser Quotes
There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I always drive like a madman.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.
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Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.
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There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.
