Alice Waters Quotes
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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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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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
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Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
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The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.
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You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.
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Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.
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I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
