Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other activity so they can turn around and spend them. It's much better if the Bitcoin economy is a self-contained thing.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
