Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
