Quotes About Consumption

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

It was funny, when I got to Australia to The Presidents Cup, I ate about 6,000 calories.

We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.

TV companies always eat, pretty good.

Those who live, live off the dead.

When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

I am terrible. When I buy stuff, I want it straight away. If it says two to three weeks delivery - no way. I will find somewhere that will deliver it that afternoon.

Capitalism can't exist without demand.

There is always more demand for great content then there will be great content to satisfy it.

People are really into on-demand consumption. I watch everything myself on demand.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don't care about your health.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

If I read the small print, and I see that what I love to taste has pantonaponamene or fake smeinlioaimine, then I have to hide in my room when I eat it. I'm still gonna eat it, it's just gonna be 'Don't come in here!'

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.