Jose Andres Quotes
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
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I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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Vegas is a celebration.