Jonathan Franzen Quotes

I'm not fussy about my food.

Jonathan Franzen

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Job
  • Want
  • Nice

• A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Food
  • Singing
  • Spiritual

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• Years down the line, I became a food stylist.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Years
  • Down

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Simple

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Like
  • Excited
  • Dogs

• I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Children
  • America
  • Food

• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Food
  • Change
  • Cooking

• I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Love
  • Food
  • Lovely

• I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Good
  • Live
  • Food

• You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • World
  • Food
  • Day

• I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Special
  • Really
  • Make

• The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Up
  • Food
  • Question

• I've talked a lot about the need to promote digital empowerment: to enable any American who wants high-speed Internet access, or broadband, to get it.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • American
  • High

• I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Political

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Thing

• I'm not fussy about my food.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Food