Padma Lakshmi Quotes
Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it's something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
