Eric Ripert Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
Uta Hagen -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru -
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
Aaron Sorkin -
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith -
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
Omari Hardwick -
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
Laura Wasser -
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuangzi -
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
Douglas Brinkley -
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
Helen Keller -
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
Alphonso Jackson -
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Chefs are leaders in their own little world.
Eric Ripert