Daniel Boulud Quotes
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
