John Lanchester Quotes
France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.
John Lanchester
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
Zoe Kravitz
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
Taylor Mali
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
Zig Ziglar
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
Karen Handel
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.
John Elkann
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In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
Alexander Dubcek
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
Dale Carnegie
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.
Will Self
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France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.
John Lanchester
