Alice Waters Quotes
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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We are facing extreme volatility.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
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Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.
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Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.
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Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.
