Danny Meyer Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
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Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.
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During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
