Alice Waters Quotes
I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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I'll let you in on a secret ...How to avoid taking a wrong turn. I speak from experience. Don't blame the world around you. The world is very much larger ...than you realize. Large enough to embrace all of you.
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Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
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I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
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We never make editorial decisions with people who are working closely with Vladimir Putin, unless you consider myself a person who is working closely with Vladimir Putin.
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I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
