Emeril Lagasse Quotes
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.
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Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
