Barbara Amiel Quotes
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.Barbara Amiel
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch -
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Barry Sternlicht -
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Patrick Warburton
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
Dana Perino -
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Idina Menzel -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dan Aykroyd
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
Hamza Yusuf -
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
Ian Beattie -
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein -
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
Jacki Weaver -
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker
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The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
Alton Brown -
Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
Chris Hardwick -
You can distill deterrence down to two factors: capability and will.
Chris Gibson -
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
John Cale -
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Ayad Akhtar -
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Barbara Amiel