Alice Waters Quotes
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
