#lifestyle

The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The doctor, too, had no way of getting to the truth of what she told him; no doubt she only gave him the facts that suited her picture, so that the doctor's picture of Charley was based on what she wanted him to know. By the time she had edited both going and coming there was little of it outside her control. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#lifestyle #manipulation #misrepresentation #money

All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will melt a hole through the polar icecap, and all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#urban-sprawl #lifestyle

I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people. ↗

— LL Cool J

#energy #fitness #healthy #healthy lifestyle #i

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#day #decadence #during #eat #gotta

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#appetite #decadent #go #grocery #grocery store

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#around #day #different #every #every day

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. ↗

— David Suzuki

#consequences #consumer #deeply #ecological #held

My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with. ↗

— Jim Thome

#buddies #cabin #favorite #fun #get

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#framework #lifestyle #order #principle #sound

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#develop #i #lifestyle #presence #require