Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
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As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.
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I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
