Louise Fresco Quotes
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.Louise Fresco
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Wangari Maathai -
My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
Carla Hall -
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Jackie Robinson -
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
Walter Salles -
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
Valerie Plame -
From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
Daniel Boulud
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
Vince Vaughn -
I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
Rachel McAdams -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling -
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton -
Food can change anything.
Laura Esquivel -
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Dana Goodyear
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
Eavan Boland -
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard -
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
Ina Garten -
For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
Ted Nugent -
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
Olivia Newton-John
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I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
Aamir Khan -
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
Jonathan Haidt -
I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam -
I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
Elliott Abrams -
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
Jonathan Lethem -
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.
Louise Fresco