Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
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Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
