Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
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No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.
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My parents were my worst audience.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
