Padma Lakshmi Quotes

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveLiveEnoughNowAtheistTemple

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

ArtThinkProcessOthersAbility

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jillian Michaels

WorkHappinessMistakePeopleYou

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FailurePastMeWriteFailSense

I'm a really big fan of facial hair.

Anderson East

HairBigBig FanFanFacialReally

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

Andre Aciman

WorkNothingMoreDifficultWould

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

Steve Harvey

AloneTiredBeing AloneMeWrong

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Roger Bannister

FamilyGreatPeopleSmallVillage

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Roger Ebert

CollegeMovingFriendsHeritageBorn

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

BaseballDecisionsNumbersRunOdds

I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood.

Mike Lookinland

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One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Michael Otto

LiveDecisionsLongWrongRight

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

WithoutLegislationInflationForm

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