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Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: chef
Nationality: indian
Birth: September 1, 1970

Topics

Home Great Empathy Chef Feel Go

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

John Irving

Mind Important First Dust See Begin

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

Matthew Walker

Sleep Memory Go Old Two Things

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines, and some have folded. What's fun about being an author is I reach a much bigger audience, and there is something special about launching a book you've penned.

Jeff Kinney

Fun Book Feel Reach You Become

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

Michael Fish

Weather Influence World Stream Over

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

John Tyler Bonner

Success Great Survive Down Evolution

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

Sonia Sotomayor

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

Steven Wright

People Laugh Become Astronauts Kids

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

Dance Ring Secret Round Middle

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Rita Mae Brown

Decision Wrong Even Any Follows

I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.

Mike Pence

Law Media Conversation Debate Up

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Chuck Schumer

Work People Road Year Long Wall

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

Anthony Warlow

Love Cooking Theatre Creating I Love