Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn’t consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone’s opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It’s just healthier for me. I feel happier.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.
The thought of making work that’s easily consumed and quickly forgotten – what’s the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
I’ve taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
I’m not consumed with political machinations.
I don’t know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.
It’s a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would’ve consumed me. I performed six days a week and rehearsed 10-plus hours a day. And you only see the people that you work with.
‘Absolute Water’ converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed – if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.
I live in the day. Yes, I make plans for tomorrow, but I don’t get so consumed by it. The time you spend with your family and friends, whatever you could be doing, enjoy them now. I live in the day.
Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.
I’m almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.
About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
There’s almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You’re totally consumed in the present, you’ve got new sense impressions, you’ve got all this stuff to digest.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.
With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they’re being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn’t much there you can love and not become consumed with what they’re not able to give you.
The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else’s combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn’t want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
Dietary fiber provides a whole slew of health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. It not only promotes ‘regularity,’ it also reduces your risk of several chronic diseases and plays a crucial role in successful weight loss.
Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.
Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards… the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn’t drink it herself – that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.
When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.
I’m broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn’t beat it.
Whenever I am acting, it’s everything, you know. If I’m researching a role, I’m completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
In my country, we’re sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?
Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.
I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He’s consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.
Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I’m not like that – I don’t have death anxiety and I don’t think about it all the time.
America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the world’s energy is consumed in this country. Where do you think it comes from, and what are the sacrifices of those countries?
Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language – you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.
I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the ‘Saturday Evening Post.’ He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn’t existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about ‘La Traviata’ by the time I was eight.
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don’t know what I would do without it.
I realized that I didn’t need nearly as many calories as I’d grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.
Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
2015 was simultaneously the year in which I consumed the most popcorn of my life and the year in which I received the most praise from my dentist.
Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I’m happy and proud of.
I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It’s a very important part of my personal discipline.
