Quotes About Consumption

I would always drink iced teas and lemonades and sodas while filming. Now it's only water and coffee.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'

I'll eat fish, but only once in a while.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.

For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything.

You can be addicted to meat, as far as I'm concerned. Why else would I eat six cheeseburgers a day?

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

I'd rather spend my money on clothes. I have a budget. Why not want to look nice? It's something I just value for myself. Instead of just spending money on cars and stuff, I'd rather buy clothes. It's just something I like.

We could auto-replenish as you take things out of the fridge. Why not?

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.