Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I was an expert horseman.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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I love playing intense characters.
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I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, was a bad man. That may even be an understatement. In this fashionable consensus, he is not just a bad man: he is a war criminal.
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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
