Padma Lakshmi Quotes

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.

Meghan Daum

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It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.

Jeff Hardy

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

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You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

John Quelch

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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca

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Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

Lucy Griffiths

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I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

Lou Dobbs

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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Dick Gregory

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Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

Clark Blaise

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My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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I want what's best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don't think I am qualified to determine who that should be.

Nick Saban

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Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.

Ryan Holiday

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