Craig Claiborne Quotes
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
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The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
