Fast Food Quotes - Page 6

• I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Eating, Intrigued

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• I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Trying, Needs

  "Live From..." with Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.

  Alison Sweeney

  Past, Long, Inspire

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• pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beer, Complaining, Shrimp

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

  Mehmet Oz

  Government, Together, Way

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• Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

  Kenny Smith

  Wisdom, Self, Mind

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• I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

  Kal Penn

  Weed, White, Firsts

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• But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Want, Restaurants, Hard

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• Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Book, Vegetarian, Fast Food Nation

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• And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it....maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working... younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff.

  Peter Brotzmann

  Music, Art, Optimistic

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

  Ken Robinson

  Energy, Body, Spirit

  "Bring on the learning revolution!". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Energy, Soybeans

  "The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals". Interview with Helen Wagenvoord, michaelpollan.com. September 30, 2004.

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• Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Agriculture, People

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• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  Jacques Pepin

  Book, Past, Years

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

  Tommy Lee

  Real, Math, People

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• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Thinking, Vegetables, People

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Reflection, Thinking

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• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

  Mean, Giving, Alcohol

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• We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

  Chris Noth

  Kids, Issues, People

  "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.

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• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Country, Europe, Food Culture

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• Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

  David Gerrold

  Hurt, Stars, Giving Up

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• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  Ted Nugent

  Running

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