Padma Lakshmi Quotes

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulFoodBestSomeoneBody

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

Jenny Offill

WorldMomentsQuietWriteAgain

From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.

Jenny Zhang

PositiveSpaceInternetCreateShy

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Maya Angelou

AloneIgnoranceSurviveThinkUs

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.

Matthew Perry

LifeMy LifeFriendsNewWantTry

I think the message from me is that you can work very hard, and someday, the work will pay off.

Angelique Kerber

WorkMeThinkYouWillHard

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Jeff Vandermeer

WorkMotherArtStrongChooseSee

I think we always have to put forth music that's better than the last.

Suga

MusicThinkBetterAlwaysLastThan

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

Rivers Cuomo

BestI AmWritingBookReadingThen

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Ritchie Blackmore

MiserableCelloMelancholyInstrument

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

Michaela Watkins

LoveBusinessMyselfI AmPeople

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

Joseph Lewis

MindSuperstitionPoison

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

Jonathan Coleman

WhitePlayPrivilegeRaceNecessary

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