Joel Robuchon Quotes
I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
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Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
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A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
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Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.
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I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
