Danny Meyer Quotes
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
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Whether you're replacing one appliance that's seen better days, or many because you're moving or renovating, you probably know to look for the Energy Star label. That's good advice.
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Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.
