Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
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Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
