Quotes About Consumption

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

In order to continue the growth, we have to go back to embracing technology and the way that people choose to consume music.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

There's a difference between what people will consume and what they will pay for.

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the world's energy is consumed in this country. Where do you think it comes from, and what are the sacrifices of those countries?

The mainstream consumed our culture.

I'm a big consumer of media and content online.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing about the need to change collective energy production.

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.