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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

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Jamie Oliver
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 27
Activist
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I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.
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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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I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
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I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
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The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.
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Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
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The future is about a plant-based diet.
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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
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Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
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I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.
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The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
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I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.
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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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If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?
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Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.
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But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.
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It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
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It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
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