Tom Colicchio Quotes

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

Tom Colicchio

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1962

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I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.

Jimmy Chin

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Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

Jim Harrison

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I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

John Oliver

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My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.

John J. McLaughlin

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A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Robert Gottlieb

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When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

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When you're not able to play ball anymore, you see who's really there for you. I would say that God works in mysterious ways, and He gets rid of your friends for you - the ones who were never really your real friends.

Stefon Diggs

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I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

Russell Peters

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I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

Lucas Neff

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

Jonas Mekas

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