Steve Ells Quotes

One of the pivotal moments for me was realizing that our 'food with integrity' approach at Chipotle was satisfying my passion. That's about bringing the best quality, sustainably-raised ingredients to everyone: chicken without antibiotics; beef without hormones. These ingredients were only available in high-end restaurants, not mainstream places.

Steve Ells

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IntegrityPassionFoodBestQuality

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

HomeIdentityLanguageBelonging

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

Jerry Rice

StarsMePressureYouBackSaid

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

John Cornforth

ChildhoodNewSydneyRuralPart

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

WorkGoodDeterminationPeopleBlind

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

Stephen Dillane

YourselfFeelUncomfortableYou

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Stanislav Grof

LifeRelationshipGreatWorldImpact

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

Robert Anton Wilson

GovernmentMeEndYouStopKnow

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online.

Jason Mraz

MusicTimePeopleListeningInternet

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Dennis Ross

FailureThinkBecomeYearsGoing

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Deepak Chopra

Self-AwarenessYesDislikeWord

We believe world peace is inevitable.

Anne Perry

PeaceWorldBelieveInevitable

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Avi

MusicScienceBrotherIdeasSister

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