Paul Jacobs Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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There's always competitors out there, one way or another.
