Mark Bittman Quotes
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
