Brian Wansink Quotes
Big dishes and big spoons are big trouble. As the size of our dishes increases, so does the amount we scoop onto them. They cause us to serve ourselves more because they make the food look so small.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
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'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
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Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.
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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
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I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
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I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.
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I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.
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I try to exercise when I'm on road - I really do try - but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.
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I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.
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I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.
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People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
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In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.
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I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.
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Big dishes and big spoons are big trouble. As the size of our dishes increases, so does the amount we scoop onto them. They cause us to serve ourselves more because they make the food look so small.
