Quotes About Consumption

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.

If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of it, how to deal with it without adding more pollution to the planet or the atmosphere.

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Daily vitamins are of no value.

They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.

I consume a lot of podcasts. I'm a voracious podcast consumer.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I basically shop in my sleep!

I don't like to go shopping.

Well, I like shopping.

I am bad with shopping.

When you're shopping you forget about eating!

I love bolos levedos. I literally can't have a bag of them in my house because I'll eat them all in an hour.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

I spend a lot of money on shoes and barely any on clothes.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.