Joel Robuchon Quotes
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
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I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
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You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.
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I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
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When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
