#bucks

Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled. ↗

— Bryant Simon

#community #starbucks #music

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. ↗

— Dave Barry

#espresso #peets #starbucks #coffee

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#having #i #job #life #manager

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#bottle #bucks #family #friendly #good

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#after #blank #book #bucks #ever

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. ↗

— John Grisham

#costs #couple #executing #guy #keeping

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#get #individual #ours #secret #site

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. ↗

— Katie Holmes

#every #every day #i #must #spoiled

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#beats #bucks #favour #genetics #got