Ted Allen Quotes
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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America is the freest country on the planet, but for Snowden, this isn't enough. He is a state diplomat in Snowden land.
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The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
