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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Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
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Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.
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I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
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I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.
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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.
