James Beard Quotes

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
  • Legitimate
  • Lobbyists

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Damage

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Gathering
  • Drop by drop

• Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

  

  John McCarthy
  • World
  • Failure

• I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

  

  James Beard
  • Good
  • Cooking