Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Idea

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Without

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Power
  • Fight
  • Stand

• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.

  

  Shawn Mendes

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Good
  • God
  • Colors

• The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

  

  Ian Christe
  • Kids

• For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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