Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

Padma Lakshmi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodSleepSunriseBabyReadingUp

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

Joel Grey

IdeasEntertainmentThanGoesDeeper

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me.

Jennie Finch

LoveGreatBestMeMomShe

I've always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men... Oh yes, that sounds lovely.

Maxine Peake

MenHorseWarriorSwordLovelyOut

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.

Angela Merkel

LiveFreedomTimeChildLawWall

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Ann Richards

New YorkPeopleSmallNewKnowUp

One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

John Wells

CharacterGreatOptimismLooking

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

OpinionDoingLookWantGenuineGot

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Mary Kay Ash

AppreciateSomeoneYouSecretKeep

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Michael K. Williams

LovePeopleMeChooseCareerSay

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

Diablo Cody

LifePeopleParisCaptureRealLike

I feel there is a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background. But when you are going through a low phase, you don't have anybody to advice you because your parents possibly can't advice you on that.

Anushka Sharma

GreatAchievementParentsAdviceYou

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Polykarp Kusch

LifeGoodChildrenHistoryChallenge

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