"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching."

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Nick Clooney

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“There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.”

Source : "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Liz Vassey". www.esquire.com. October 31, 2006.
“Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.”
“What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?”
“I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.”
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
“When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government playing too much of a role in our lives? When people have that response, they're forgetting the extent to which what kids are eating and drinking is having as much of an impact on their lives as, say, if they were starting to smoke cigarettes as teenagers. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”
“I love playing to people and seeing them react.”

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