Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Art
  • Movie

• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

  

  Larry David
  • Great
  • Money
  • Living

• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Happy
  • First
  • Musicians

• Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Equality

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• Drax isn't your average stereotypical soldier/warrior/musclehead. He actually has some depth. It was a character that I wanted to play, not only because I love acting so much, but also, I needed to play to get people to actually take me seriously as an actor and get away from the pro wrestling label.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • People
  • Character
  • Soldier

• The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Done

• You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

  

  Susanna Hoffs
  • Good
  • Great
  • Ballet

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Never
  • Period
  • Out

• Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Black