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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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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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
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Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
