Consuming Quotes - Page 16

• These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.

  Eddie Vedder

  Summer, Song, People

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• The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already extended days. The very interconnectedness of life in a global networked economy that creates so many opportunities also makes all our decisions more complex, crucial, even fragile.

  Sally Helgesen

  Technology, Opportunity, Decision

  Sally Helgesen (2001). “Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Understanding, Roles, World

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Chapter 5, 1963.

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• Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Skills

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• You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

  James Cameron

  Animal, Environmentalist, Stills

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