Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
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My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and people here are so into the food. It's one of the most exciting food cities in the country.
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It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
