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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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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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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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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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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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
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I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
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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.
