Alice Waters Quotes
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
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When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
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I was a very picky eater.
