Danny Meyer Quotes
Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?
