Alice Waters Quotes

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

Alice Waters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 28, 1944

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For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.

Jessica St. Clair

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Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

John Gourley

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This industry is tough on relationships. I've always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine because I couldn't do what I do without her support.

Jeff Bridges

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Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

Michael McMillian

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If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

Mindy Grossman

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Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jason Calacanis

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With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

Jonathan Krisel

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Networking is working.

Denise Morrison

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Flying small airplanes is not like being on airlines.

Doug Liman

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No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

Chris Pine

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Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.

Chubby Checker

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