Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes

I watched 'Iron Chef ' for years, and I thought, 'That's playing for the New York Yankees.' I made that my version of being Derek Jeter, and I worked really, really hard to win that.

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• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Society
  • Design

• You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Try
  • Harmony

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Things

• There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • History
  • Control

• Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Memories

• When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Popular

• In such green palaces the first kings reign'd,Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd;With such old counsellors they did advise,And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Wise
  • Green

• Thinta flew safely, and I realized how much I preferred being with Hergal and feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. Actually when I’m with Hergal I always realize how much I prefer being with Thinta and not feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Feeling

• If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into  die 'Illegal division by zero

  

  Larry Wall

• Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Family
  • Desert

• You don’t like me saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one generally doesn’t have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Wish

• We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Writing
  • Bad

• The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Das Bedenkliche bei der Sache ist auch bloß die doch einzuräumende Möglichkeit, daß die letzte dem Menschen erreichbare Einsicht in die Natur der Dinge, in sein eigenes Wesen und das der Welt nicht gerade zusammenträfe mit den Lehren, welche theils dem ehemaligen Völkchen der Juden eröffnet worden, theils vor 1800 Jahren in Jerusalem aufgetreten sind.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • True

• When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

  

  Joshua Bell
  • Performing
  • Interpretation
  • Get Out

• I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Reading

• Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • Harmony

• I watched 'Iron Chef ' for years, and I thought, 'That's playing for the New York Yankees.' I made that my version of being Derek Jeter, and I worked really, really hard to win that.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli