Danny Meyer Quotes
My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I get homesick.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
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I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
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My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
