Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I don't like attacking.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.