Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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When I was a kid, I had dyslexia. And I would write about it in my dairy.
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My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.
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The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
