Eric Schlosser Quotes

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

Eric Schlosser

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I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Jim Lehrer

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

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I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

Angie Martinez

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If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Stuart Rose

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I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.

Shirley Manson

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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

Jason Priestley

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

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There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

Christopher Voss

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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis

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I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

Penelope Keith

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