Jacques Pepin Quotes
All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
Quotes to Explore
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!
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When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”
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All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
