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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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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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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I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.
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Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
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We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
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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.
