Alice Waters Quotes

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

Alice Waters

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
  • People
  • Challenged
  • Lots

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Information
  • Outlook

• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Looking

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Important
  • You

• Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Looking
  • Finding

• Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Cheating

• Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Great
  • Men
  • Money

• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Lives
  • Dramatic
  • Bar

• Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Why
  • War
  • Innocent

• Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.

  

  Eric Adams Manowar
  • Safety
  • Industry
  • Role

• Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Good
  • Food