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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."
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"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."

"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
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