Alice Waters Quotes
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
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I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
