Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
-
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
-
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
-
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
-
Everything that I design I would wear myself.
-
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
-
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
-
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
-
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
-
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
-
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
-
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
-
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
-
Acting is a form of confession.
-
They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'
-
When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.
-
Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.
-
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
-
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
-
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
