M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.
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Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
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I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
