Alex Guarnaschelli Quotes
I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'
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I want to relate to my fans as much as possible.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'
