Emily Matchar Quotes
In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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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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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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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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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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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.
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Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
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If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.
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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
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In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
