Jose Andres Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
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Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
