Danny Meyer Quotes
In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.
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I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
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We didn't have any goal set, but we knew we had to work with someone who had a complete, almost encyclopedic knowledge of music. We wanted to make an album that sounded completely different but still had the heart and soul of the band. It's still The Strokes, but it's a very different form of The Strokes.
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In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
