Eric Ripert Quotes
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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I love horror movies.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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Pressure is part and parcel of our career.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
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I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.
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I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.