Jacques Torres Quotes

You need chocolate with enough cocoa butter. If your chocolate is high-quality, with a good content of cocoa butter, the chocolate will melt inside and create layering. That's very important. Those chocolate morsels don't melt. So, for the best chocolate chip cookies, I use the chocolate we sell, which is a 60 percent cocoa.

Jacques Torres

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: June 14, 1959

Topics

GoodBestChocolateEnoughYouWill

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?

Jesse Kellerman

MeThinkTryingWhyIntroduction

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

Jenny Lewis

MusicMyselfPlayAliveWriteStay

I've loved reading all my life.

John Wayne

LifeReadingLovedMy Life

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.

Stewart Lee

LifeChangeTimeTravelMy LifeGo

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Snoop Dogg

BusinessBestGameLearnBecomeRap

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Roland Joffe

ThinkThreeTwoYearsFilmI Think

Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.

Mohsin Hamid

GoodMusicFoodMeTelevisionThree

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

Lucy Dacus

LifeWordsWritingEndMy LifeTry

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Louis C. K.

LoveChildrenNegativeParentYou

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have to be in direct contact with anyone to get pink-eye. But for parents who write, flexibility becomes essential, and as long as I have a pad of paper and a pen, I can write anywhere. Starbucks is fine.

Claire Messud

AdventureParentsWritingSomeone

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

Clarence Thomas

BlackViewPoint Of ViewSpecial

I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It really feels like a bunch of creative minds rather than some rap guys stamping their names on a sneaker. We're arguing over shoes, ideas, and everything - it's like a tug of war.

Pusha T

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