Eric Ripert Quotes

You don't become a chef to become famous.

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Learned
  • Ignorant

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Truth
  • Proud
  • Speak

• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friendships

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Home
  • Famous
  • Streets

• I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • Truth

• I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

  

  George Best
  • Memories

• People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Life
  • Future

• You don't become a chef to become famous.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Famous