Jose Andres Quotes
Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.
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I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.
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The business with high ethical standards has three primary advantages over competitors whose standards are lower:
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I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
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Let me ask you: Who do you prefer, a clown organizing your menu - with all due respect to Mr. McDonald - or a chef? I do believe it's a very simple answer.
