Padma Lakshmi Quotes
If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
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I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.
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If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.
