Jacques Pepin Quotes
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
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After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
