Jamie Oliver Quotes
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
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I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.
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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
