Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Amazing
  • Fantastic
  • Fabulous

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Curious

• If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Execution

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Winning
  • Effort

• At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Me
  • Match
  • Earlier

• I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Think
  • Vanity

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Mind
  • Simple

• I really like listening to music in my car.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listening

• When my turn comes I propose to take my lethal capsule comfortably in bed at home and preferably on my own.

  

  P. D. James
  • Home

• 'Tis strange how the heart can createOr colour from itself its fate;We make ourselves our own distress,We are ourselves our happiness.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Fate

• …he had to admit to a faint admiration (faint as angostura colouring gin and water)

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Water

• It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Power

• These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Country
  • School

• 'Ten Commandments'

  

  Leo Szilard

• Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

  

  Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • Important
  • May
  • Technology

• In my practice I use neurofeedback primarily to help with the hyperarousal, confusion, and concentration problems of people who suffer from developmental trauma. However, it has also shown good results for numerous issues and conditions that go beyond the scope of this book, including relieving tension headaches, improving cognitive functioning following a traumatic brain injury, reducing anxiety and panic attacks, learning to deepen meditation states, treating autism, improving seizure control, self-regulation in mood disorders, and more.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Help
  • Problems
  • Suffer

• Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Freak
  • Rabbits
  • Ninja

• It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

  

  John Bradshaw
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Lying

• The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten