Ferran Adria Quotes
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Hire people who intimidate you.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
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How strong sometimes is weakness!
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When I was 26, I founded Peaceworks as a food company that brought together Israelis, Arabs, Turks, and others in conflict regions to make and sell various food products from the Middle East. That economic cooperation helped bridge divides and cultivate mutual understanding among neighbors.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
