Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.
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The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together.
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.
