Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
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Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.
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I tend to be a pretty physical person.
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Art is life's dream interpretation.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
