Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
