Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
For friends, I love to make bruschetta. I grill country bread with Frantoia olive oil and make toppings, like crab, roasted squash, mushrooms, whatever's seasonal.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
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Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.
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I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.
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Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
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For friends, I love to make bruschetta. I grill country bread with Frantoia olive oil and make toppings, like crab, roasted squash, mushrooms, whatever's seasonal.
