Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.
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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.
