Wylie Dufresne Quotes

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Wylie Dufresne

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Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Jim Rogers

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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Jessamyn West

ChildrenFeelAnimalsThanNearer

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

John Benjamin Hickey

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I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

Max von Essen

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We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.

Angela Ahrendts

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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

John Podhoretz

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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron

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I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

Judy Garland

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There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Josh Gad

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I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.

Cory Monteith

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