Eric Ripert Quotes
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.
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Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
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Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.
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In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
