Alice Waters Quotes
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.
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Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
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I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.
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When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
