Brian Wansink Quotes
It’s about as close to an established fact as things get in the social sciences: People who watch a lot of TV are more likely to be overweight than people who don’t.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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Women are sacred.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
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Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
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I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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It’s about as close to an established fact as things get in the social sciences: People who watch a lot of TV are more likely to be overweight than people who don’t.
