Andrea Illy Quotes
“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
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My first real television-watching experience was when I watched 'L.A. Law,' like, at 10 o'clock Thursday nights with my parents. They would let me stay up late.
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“Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting”
