“Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.”
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“People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.”
“When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, "No."”
“No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon.'”
“People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.”
“Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.”
“Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.”
“The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.”
“We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.”
“Things have a terrible permanence when people die.”
“I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.”
“How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!”
“People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.”
“Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.”
“The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.”
“For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.”
“People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.”
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
“People are always waiting to be discovered.”
“Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.”