Supermarkets Quotes - Page 7

• I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

  Janice Galloway

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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• Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

  Joel Salatin

  Government, Next Week, Knowing

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• That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Technology, California

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• It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

  Betty Friedan

  School, College, Government

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

  Ivan Stang

  Education, Reality, House

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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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• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

  Bill Bryson

  Distance, Home, Average

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

  Michael Ian Black

  Depression, Zero, Thinking

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'

  Marc Jacobs

  Grandmother, People, Next

  "Marc Jacobs Interview: Fashion Designer Muses On His Teenage Years And Early Days In The Industry". Interview with Julia Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Writing, Hype

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• What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

  Steven Wright

  Names, Mets, Generic

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• And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." Mr. Landowsky

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Giving, Hot

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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Fun, Ignorance

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• I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

  Ronald Burkle

  Boys, College, Boxes

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• Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Criticism

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• We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.

  William Henry Willimon

  Believe, School, Shopping

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