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 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 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

• 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

• People thought this was a good thing. We would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares. No more fear. No more anguish. We would live entirely among Jews, among brothers...

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • May
  • Society
  • Sex

• For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Character
  • Fun

• I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

  

  Alan Zweibel

• I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Life
  • Decided
  • Skinny

• The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Knows
  • Littles
  • Causes

• The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Stop
  • Painting

• You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

  

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Extraordinary
  • Behave
  • Criticizing

• Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Giving
  • Chance
  • Helping

• 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