Michael Moss Quotes

The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.

Michael Moss

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A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

Amitava Kumar

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Reading taught me how to write.

Ruth Rendell

MeReadingWriteHowTaught

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.

Mike McCue

HomeTechnologyMomToughHelpTry

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

David Sedaris

PeopleBookNowSittingMeetHalf

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

Cory Booker

LoveGoodPatriotismBridgesYou

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

Connor Paolo

PeopleFeelTryingWorthYouKnow

I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

Clint Smith

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I need to learn to be more assertive.

Brooke Elliott

LearnMoreNeedAssertive

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Willie Mays

LifeGoodSportsTimeAngerAngry

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Pippa Evans

FunnyMeThinkFatBoyBeing Funny

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

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You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

Shemar Moore

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