Danny Meyer Quotes
A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Listen to and sing the music of heaven.
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A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
