[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

You are what what you eat eats.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

I believe, I believe that the people who voted in those primaries for Donald Trump were at least helping him along with his message of hate toward immigrants, toward Muslims.

Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

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