Brian Wansink Quotes
Even though I was appointed by the White House to be executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agency in charge of the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines, and even though I am a past president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, I still don’t think most nutrition education is very effective. People know that an apple is better for them than a Snickers bar, but . . . they eat the Snickers bar anyway.
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My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
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I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
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Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.
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Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
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You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
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Truth is not always injured by fiction.
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It's not like the Rex Sox the year before. It's not even close.
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The United Nations should continue to be the center of gravity in the post-conflict period.
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And what’s he then that says I play the villain?
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
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Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.
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When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
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Is this still the White House's stated and actual policy?
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Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
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My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
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Even though I was appointed by the White House to be executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agency in charge of the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines, and even though I am a past president of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, I still don’t think most nutrition education is very effective. People know that an apple is better for them than a Snickers bar, but . . . they eat the Snickers bar anyway.
