Danny Meyer Quotes
I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.
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I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'
