Alex Atala Quotes

If I tell you mozzarella tastes of Italy and miso speaks of Japan, then tucupi [fermented manioc juice] and ants are the taste of Brazil

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Audience
  • Books

• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  

  Hank Haney
  • High
  • You
  • Idea

• Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Will
  • Just
  • Wave

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Die
  • Car

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Guy

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Food

• Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Training
  • Acting

• Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Long
  • Man
  • Soldiers

• I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Day

• You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Hours
  • Paid

• The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Ideas

• Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus
  • Powerful

• We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

  

  Geoffrey Wolff
  • Change
  • Win
  • Lose

• I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Moments
  • Film

• To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

  

  Willis Polk
  • Should
  • Form
  • Taste

• Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Mom
  • Fans

• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Person
  • Moment

• If I tell you mozzarella tastes of Italy and miso speaks of Japan, then tucupi [fermented manioc juice] and ants are the taste of Brazil

  

  Alex Atala
  • Taste
  • Tell
  • Speaks