Daniel Boulud Quotes
I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Quotes to Explore
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
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I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.
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I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
