Gail Simmons Quotes
There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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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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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.
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I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.
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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.
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I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
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As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.
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There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
