Brian Wansink Quotes
The idea of eating better is do-able. While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.
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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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The idea of eating better is do-able. While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today.
