Michael Moss Quotes
What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
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'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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P. 27.
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But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
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Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds
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The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.
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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
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What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.
