Jamie Oliver Quotes
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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We are all terminal.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.
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I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
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He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
