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

• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• John Coltrane was probably my deepest influence, along with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Jones, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, John Lewis, Bill Evans, Yehudi Menuhin, McCoy Tyner, THE BEATLES, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarret, Glenn Gould, Aldo Ciccolini, Georgy Cziffra, Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, with whom I worked as a child.

  

  Patrick Moraz The Moody Blues
  • Child
  • Influence
  • Worked

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Career
  • You
  • Analyzing

• I have a very broad range of life experiences.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Life
  • Very
  • Experiences

• I won't talk about who I'm dating. Because it's dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me. It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Responsibility
  • Dating

• 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