Eric Ripert Quotes
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
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I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.
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Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.
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The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
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In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.
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There is great food in Vegas.
