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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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski
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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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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
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My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
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I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.
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I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.
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I was a very picky eater.
