Charlie Trotter Quotes
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
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Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.
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I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.
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Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.
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People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
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Friendship is communion.
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Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
