Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
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My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.