Padma Lakshmi Quotes

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Want

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Arts
  • Degree
  • Culinary

• I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Environment

• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Family
  • High
  • Society

• Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Home
  • Best
  • Childhood

• I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Job
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Greatest

• We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Celebrity
  • Shows

• There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Always
  • Slow
  • Partying

• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • God
  • Science
  • Law

• In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Art
  • Listening
  • Mood

• No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured Me more, not Even the one who betrayed me to torture, Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.

  

  Anna Akhmatova

• Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek

• The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Souls

• Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

  

  Padma Lakshmi