Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
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My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.
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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
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I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
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Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
