J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
