Frances Mayes Quotes
What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
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I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.
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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
