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.
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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 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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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
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When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
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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.
