I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.
Tessa Thompson
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Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.
Joe Bastianich
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Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.
Joe Carnahan
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
Johnny Bench
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
Amy Chua
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If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
Tom Douglas
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I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
Mike Posner
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The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.
Mike Wallace
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I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
Martin Seligman
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I always have the best story at the party. Anyone telling a story at a party is like, 'No, no, you've got to listen to my story!' I'm like, 'Step aside, everybody. I'm going to blow the doors off this place.'
Mike Birbiglia
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Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.
Michael Socha
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When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.
Joseph Stiglitz
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