Padma Lakshmi Quotes
People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
