Jacques Pepin Quotes
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
God doesn't know things. He is things.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
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My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.
