Jacques Pepin Quotes

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Jacques Pepin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 18, 1935

Topics

GreatChefProcessLearnYouKnow

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Jill Scott

PathYourselfChildMeStartDown

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

John Grierson

LeadershipCreativeAppreciationNew

I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomenCreatePassionateIssuesTV

I'm really into Spider-Man, in particular. Since I was a little kid.

Stephanie Sigman

KidLittleSpider-ManSinceReally

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Steve Martin

LoveBrokenLove IsPromise

I would have - I didn't really have to be an athlete. I could have been, you know - worked in fast food, been a janitor, anything. I would have had two or three jobs, working long hours, you know, to support myself and for my family in the future. I would have been successful.

Michael Oher

FamilyFutureMyselfFoodSupport

That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

Mitt Romney

SomeoneCountrySayNo SenseSense

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Julia Sweeney

TimeLongLong TimeSayComfortable

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

Jason Aldean

GoodJobMomDoingEnoughFinding

There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

Jason Isbell

GoWantHuntingPointDaddyAnymore

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

Brett Gelman

NightYouKnowOldYearsOpera

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

Brad Pitt

LifeTreeSpiritualChristianSay

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