Alice Waters Quotes

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

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• The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Problem
  • Best
  • Baseball

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Everything
  • Choice
  • Possible

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Perception

• They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Me
  • Best
  • Told

• If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Woman

• I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Star
  • Brand

• For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Growth
  • English

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Need
  • Dogs
  • Chicken

• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Reason
  • Inspiration
  • Lose

• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • World
  • American
  • Rest

• If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Cream
  • Philadelphia
  • Upbringing

• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Tendency
  • Equivalent
  • Impulses

• I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

  

  Alice Waters