Mark Bittman Quotes
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
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Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.
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In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
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Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.
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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.
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
