Irma S. Rombauer Quotes
Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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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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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
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I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
