Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
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The world is too violent right now.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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No man may make another free.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
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You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.
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Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
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No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.
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There is nothing erratic about my nature. It’s just that the way you would react, I would react the same way. It’s just that people in limelight, under the media spotlight, would not react that way. They would go back home and plan their reaction. That would be a more dangerous reaction. With me, it’s just there, and I forgive and forget very easily.
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At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.
