Jacques Pepin Quotes
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Quotes to Explore
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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Acting's boring.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.
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As a vulgar lounge entertainer, my business relies on ridiculous stereotypes! If these people start using deodorant, I might as well just go home!
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It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.
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Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
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My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
