Theophilus London Quotes

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

Theophilus London

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Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

Joe Bastianich

PeopleThinkRestaurantUnderstanding

'Game of Thrones' is great. Love it.

Jesse Metcalfe

LoveGreatGameGame Of Thrones

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

WorkThinkYouUnderstandHardSell

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

Sophia Amoruso

LifeBusinessGreatJobYouLose

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

Mike Pompeo

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Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

Mireille Guiliano

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Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.

Jon Krakauer

FireUpOwnFriendlyNaturalFact

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

Dean-Charles Chapman

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I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

Bronte Campbell

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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

Pele

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My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Nicola Sturgeon

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I was born in Canada, and then my dad played pro soccer in England and then also on an island off the coast of Portugal. So we lived there for, like, 10 years. And then we moved to Minnesota. So I feel like I've experienced a lot of different cultures, and I'm still figuring out who I am.

Kylie Bunbury

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