Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.
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You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.
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In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
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We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties. This is the language of sterility.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
