Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

I cook every day for six hours. It's my therapy. My love.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Bad
  • Parent

• I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Door
  • Feet

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Loved
  • Rejection
  • Believing

• I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• It is better to watch things then to do them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Things
  • Better
  • Watch

• Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Give

• I love imperfections.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Imperfections

• It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Goals
  • Easy
  • Act

• Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Just
  • Stock
  • Trade

• I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

  

  Rene Rivkin
  • Thinking
  • Human
  • Lifestyle

• It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

  

  Lysander Spooner

• Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Real
  • Money

• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • News
  • Treat
  • Batman

• Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

  

  Steve Berlin Los Lobos
  • Guy
  • Extraordinary
  • Across

• I cook every day for six hours. It's my therapy. My love.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten