When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring... WALTER DEAN MYERS We received a number of entrants. We were delighted to see so many companies focusing energy on thei... DEBBIE IMBODEN Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the fu... BENNY BLANCO There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't... BOBBY FISCHER I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really sus... ALICE WATERS Overall, Madison is pretty progressive and a lot of the people are very socially aware of the kinds ... BRENDON SMITH It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. LILLIAN HELLMAN What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see t... CARLA HALL Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do... SUNDAY ADELAJA First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in ... ALICE WATERS We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is ... BRUCE BARBER Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protoco... SALLY QUINN I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly be... RENEE FLEMING Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros. The puppies a... FRANCESCA CANTALINI Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some case... WOODY HARRELSON When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more con... JERRY BROWN Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to mor... PAUL HAWKEN Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the b... ANDY VAN SLYKE What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They... CHUCK SCHUMER Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros (dollars). The... FRANCESCA CANTALINI Too often people look at the disability only and are quick to diagnose someone or try and figure out... MATT BROOKS The help we provide them is with our food stamp program, and if they are here and they don't have ac... GWEN ROBINSON People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and d... CHARLES STANLEY The only way to work with start-up companies is to give them absolute flexibility to do whatever the... DAVID HARNETT There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the... JOHN F. KENNEDY So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you... EMMA THOMPSON Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their i... LADY STARLIGHT We didn't even think about Pops. They have so many good players and they control the game with their... DERECK WHITTENBURG The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do... JEAN PAUL GAULTIER People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of th... COREY TAYLOR Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stor... TOM WOLFE If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, wh... C.S. LEWIS I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have ... SHANE WARNE I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things th... BO BURNHAM Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food. CALVIN TRILLIN Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them... JEAN GIRAUDOUX The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit... EAZY-E They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last t... LUKASZ LANIECKI We ask new employees to share with us their most memorable restaurant experience and why. They never... PAT MCDONNELL Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their foo... JEAN NIDETCH The Problem With Most People In Their Lives Is That They Focus On What They Don't Have And What Is H... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by t... PAUL BLOOM 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the... DJ KHALED A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. T... BEN CARSON I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and gra... ALISON SWEENEY I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's ... ROBERT HASS CBC is so deep and they can beat you in so many ways. When we were able to kind of control their gua... JASON ADAMS People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaki... HUBERT HUMPHREY Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They wer... ELLA BAKER Research tells us that most Americans don?t understand that antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses. ... DR. JOANN SCHAEFER Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their b... DAN PINK The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their ... JIM JORDAN We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't... MALCOLM GLADWELL When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have... MARTIN PARR The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Mich... DENNIS RODMAN What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t... HOWARD SCHULTZ I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. LACEY CHABERT People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of... M.C. FRANK I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to b... OREN PELI Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and whe... ISABEL WILKERSON When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who ar... MORGAN SPURLOCK What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it co... FRANKLIN P. JONES It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer n... MICHAEL SPECTER In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the... BERT LANCE When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, an... LAURA MENNELL The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. ... DAVID CROSBY You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what ... RANDY WEST Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo... WILL ROGERS When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them.... DON MARQUIS I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so... in... BILL CUNNINGHAM Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced a... WALLY SCHIRRA We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou... SIDNEY MADWED Many people do not think very often about what they think about. They just let their thoughts live i... HENRY CLOUD My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredient... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a m... DANA GOODYEAR We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goat... TOM CATENA Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just wan... NIKLAS ZENNSTROM A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority popul... ALVEDA KING They feed them, clean the tanks, prepare the food -- even weigh and measure them. They watch them gr... KATHLEEN WAGNER
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