Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
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I work with the parents. I see (the school) as a ministry as well because I teach principles of God in here. You don't just stop at the thing that you teach. You teach the whole person.
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Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
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My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.
