Padma Lakshmi Quotes
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Midi is my hobby.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
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I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
