Benjamin Creme Quotes
There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
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My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
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I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.
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I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
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Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.
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Environment is process, not container. (p. 30)
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If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.
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I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.
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There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.
