Alice Waters Quotes

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

Alice Waters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

Joanna Coles

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I find getting my nails done the most tedious thing. I'm such a fidgety person; it's like torture. Everybody loves massages; I don't know what my problem is. I feel like I have to talk to the masseuses.

Anna Kendrick

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I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Ani DiFranco

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It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Shirley Manson

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President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

Mitch McConnell

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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Louis Kahn

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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Jean Alesi

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I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House.

Jason Chaffetz

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People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

January Jones

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Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

Diane Keaton

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I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

Diane Paulus

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There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

Cheech Marin

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