Alton Brown Quotes
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
