Jacques Pepin Quotes

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

Jacques Pepin

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• One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • You
  • Need

• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Year

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Mom
  • Lucky

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Business
  • Career
  • Look

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dance

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Media
  • Talk

• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Real
  • Doing

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Yourself
  • Too Much
  • Smell

• Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;As quietly and solemnlyAs Life when it is kissing Death.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Death
  • Kiss

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• I would never be her mate in a million years! Carla's a nightmare and annoys the hell out of me. She's the type of person who creates drama wherever she goes, and I'm not like that at all. Plus, she'd probably try to steal my fella!

  

  Alison King
  • Drama
  • Nightmare
  • Carla

• I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.

  

  MF DOOM
  • Character
  • Writer
  • Normal

• My fantasy breakfast is just a really good egg scramble. Maybe I'll add a little feta, so, uh, obviously not totally dairy-free. Definitely some vegetables, maybe some really nice tortillas; something to make it like a Mexican-style breakfast. I just really love breakfast.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Good
  • Free
  • Nice

• The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Style
  • Cooking