Ted Allen Quotes
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
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I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.
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'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.
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Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
