Alain Ducasse Quotes
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
