Supermarkets Quotes - Page 6

• By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Girl, Real, Cards

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• Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.

  John Robbins

  Two, Ingredients, Campaigns

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.4, Conari Press

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• I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"

  Bill Henson

  Reading, Standing Down, Want

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

  Marco Pierre White

  Extraordinary, Fascinating

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Beach, Rain, Independence

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

  Robert Crumb

  Children, Kids, Theatre

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Growing Up, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

  William Eggleston

  Missing, Today, Something New

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

  Eva Mendes

  Confused, Culture, Visibility

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I go up in the supermarkets and people always go what are you doing here and I go I'm hungry in a sarcastic but nice way just to let them know yo I'm human too man.

  Rakim

  Sarcastic, Nice, Men

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Prayer, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Adding two or three chunks of wood to the coals adds a great smoke flavor to meat. I prefer pecan wood, which adds a mellow smoke flavor, but any good wood will work. And most barbecue sections in stores and supermarkets around the country, like Walmart, sell hickory wood, which adds a heavier smoke flavor. Oak is also a good option for a mellow smoke flavor.

  Johnny Trigg

  Country, Two, Add

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• Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy.

  Wu Shanzhuan

  Democracy, West, China

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Saws, Firsts, Building

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Believe, Book

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• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Should Have, People

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

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• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if... Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Good Life, Nice

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• Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

  Michael Pollan

  Middle, Shops, Periphery

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• During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Government, Dying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Kissing, Race

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• The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Lakers, Fans

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

  Michael Pollan

  Health, Grandmother, Nutrition

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• My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Mother, Lines

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• The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Black And White, Night, Squares

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