Quotes About Consumption

I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much.

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

On average, I order about three meals for myself in one sitting.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.

I'm a real meat eater.

I know there are so many rich people in this country, and yet they don't know how to spend their money.

When you order room service as much as I do, and Postmates, you don't really need to have a lot of food.

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.

By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

Growing up, I ate a lot of candy. If you were my dentist, you would know that, you know, but I eat a lot of candy, so from eight to probably, like, 15, you wouldn't see me without a pack of Skittles.

Never eat anything out of a bowl in a bar... If it isn't in a package, don't eat it.

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Having a kid who begged for 'just a few more minutes' of television was the antithesis of what I had hoped parenthood would be. It was resigning ourselves to a universe of want and consumption.

Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

The evil of the present system is therefore not that the "surplus-value" of production goes to the capitalist, as Rodbertus and Marx said, thus narrowing the Socialist conception and the general view of the capitalist system; the surplus-value itself is but a consequence of deeper causes. The evil lies in the possibility of a surplus-value existing, instead of a simple surplus not consumed by each generation