Consuming Quotes - Page 4

• In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

  Dan Gillmor

  Creating, Culture

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• Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Baby, Block, Book

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• The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hands, Goal, Jelly

  Brandon Sanderson (2015). “Firefight”, p.132, Delacorte Press

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• There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kindness, Scratches, Needs

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• A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

  Esther Meynell

  Home, Garden, Simplicity

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town, (there are) crazy hours and all of the things that go with filmmaking, which is a pretty all-consuming business, although I'm very blessed to be a part of it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Crazy, Blessed, Years

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.

  Johnny Carson

  Sex, Smoking, Guy

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• I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.

  Billy Corgan

  Hurt, Government, Roots

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Sacrifice, Safety

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• I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!

  Wendy Williams

  Real, People, Dancer

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

  Wendy Williams

  Cutting, Mexican, Etcetera

  Source: aalbc.com

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• No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Nice, Philosophical, Missing

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.

  Albert Camus

  Girl, Beach, Morning

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• I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

  Meaghan Rath

  Special, Green, Screens

  Source: collider.com

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• In the United States, the average is two children per family, while in Africa it is five children per family. On the surface, the statistic seems to indicate that Africans are having way too many kids and are taxing the Earth's resources, while American kids are born into families who are able to take care of them. However, the average American child consumes roughly the same resources as fifteen African children. So when an American family says they only have two children, they are actually consuming the resources of an African family of thirty children!

  Sharon Gannon

  Children, Kids, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Impact, Survival, Needs

  "Origin Magazine: Raheem DeVaughn ~ Love, Love, and More Love by Faith Hunter". Faith Hunter interview, faithhunter.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

  Hillary Clinton

  Twenties, Demand, Four

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• More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

  Dave Barry

  Packaging, Coming Out, These Days

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Sometimes when you see things online, it's very consuming.

  Zendaya

  Sometimes, Online

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

  Dave Barry

  Art, Modern, Grasping

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• We are having the 100th anniversary of 2015 year of the first in the nation primary in New Hampshire. And these voters take their responsibility very seriously. They like to kick the tires. They get the most up close and personal look in the entire arc of the campaign at the candidates. And debates are time consuming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Years, Voters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Falling In Love, Art, Hurt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!

  Wesley K. Wark

  Office, Energy, Climate

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The hardest problem of all is to appreciate the facts that the poor nations are - quite reasonably - not going to forgo their development, and that they can only afford to develop by consuming fossil fuels.

  Philip Kitcher

  Appreciate, Poor Nations, Development

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sage, Mist, Live By

  Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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