Alice Waters Quotes

My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.

Alice Waters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Jess Walter

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I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.

Jessica Simpson

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I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.

Andre Ward

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Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Amisha Patel

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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Amal Clooney

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I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits

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Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.

Michelle Alexander

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My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

Dawn Richard

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Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.

Chris Cornell

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If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

Bruno Maag

ChildrenMirrorYouAlwaysMessUp

I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.

Phil Humber

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