111 Quotes by Jamie Oliver

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    I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

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    I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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    When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!

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    God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

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    If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

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    All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

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    We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

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    I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

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