Alain Ducasse Quotes
Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I'm really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
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Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.
