Michael Pollan Quotes

The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.

Michael Pollan

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AmericaCleaningBecomeOverMess

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

John Darnielle

LoveMoviesHorrorPossibleSee

My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.

John Edgar Wideman

FatherWarWorldBlackUncleHand

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Robert Plant

MeKindEventsEverythingBeenAble

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Robert Morgan

GreatYourselfPoetryDeepYouBack

I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are interested in how I did it or if I can give any advice, then that's lovely.

Matthew Williamson

MyselfPeopleAdviceBackCareer

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

Sonia Sotomayor

HeartYoungSpiritAdventurousStill

In January of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year's time, vowing to continue to fight terror but 'in a manner that is consistent with our values and ideals.' A plan was considered to move a number of detainees to stateside prisons in order to have them stand trial in civilian court.

Michael Paterniti

JanuaryTimeFightStandPlanYear

I'm not a wannabe Miley Cyrus.

Dionne Bromfield

ThinkToo MuchGoNeverWatching

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

Diana Vreeland

BeautifulYouBornAttractiveWildly

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

SocietyThinkYouSayIndependent

If you invest the time earlier to create structure and process around communication, planning, and goal-setting, you can prevent missteps before they occur.

Christine Tsai

CommunicationTimePlanningProcess

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard

ManLearnUnknownNothingGoing

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