Alice Waters Quotes
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
Quotes to Explore
-
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
-
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
-
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
-
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
-
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
-
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
-
I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
-
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
-
The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
-
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
-
Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
-
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
-
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
-
As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
-
Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
-
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
-
I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
-
I'm very much a family person.
-
Making a bougie, expensive beauty brand wasn't helping the mission or very fun for me. We can all be united by that $12 coconut balm. You don't need to charge an arm and a leg.
-
I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.
-
I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.
-
I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.
-
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
