Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
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I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
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The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
