People Quotes

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

~ Travis Fimmel

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

~ Ameen Rihani

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

~ Dan Farmer

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

~ Joshua Sasse

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

~ Doc Watson

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

~ Mother Teresa

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

~ Audrey Hepburn

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

~ David H. Murdock

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

~ César Chávez

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

~ Mickey Gilley

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

~ Bob Marley

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

~ Ziggy Marley

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

~ Bernie Sanders

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

~ Kenneth Edmonds

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

~ Julia Child

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

~ Mark Hyman

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

~ Ray Kroc

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

~ Andrew Weil

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

~ Cindy Sheehan

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

~ Sally Schneider

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

~ Anthony Bourdain

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

~ Muhammad Yunus

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

~ Thomas Kaplan

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

~ Orlando Bloom

The idea behind fast food is great - people want convenience.

~ Kimbal Musk

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

~ Joel Salatin

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

~ Eric Schlosser

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

~ Sitting Bull

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

~ Naveen Jain

I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.

~ Eric Schlosser

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

~ Ron Finley

Yoga is the most boring exercise. It's for people who are too lazy to get on the elliptical. Bikram, where they heat up the room to mimic India's climate, is especially stupid. People in India are not skinny because they're doing yoga in 105-degree rooms; they're skinny because there's no food.

~ Noureen Dewulf

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

~ Alice Waters

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

~ Noam Chomsky

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

~ Ruth Reichl

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

~ Tracey Emin

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

~ Ronald Reagan

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland