Alice Waters Quotes
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I grew up in New York.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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I think it's important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage - defense of traditional non-gay marriage - that we have it as a federal law.
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Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.
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Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
