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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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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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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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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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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I have a very positive outlook.
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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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There really isn't a formula for success.
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
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I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries.
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Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
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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.
