Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
