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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With the legislature’s hard work, school choice has momentum and we are working together to put students first and strengthen our public education system.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
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Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
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I was a very picky eater.
