Frances Mayes Quotes

Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

Frances Mayes

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If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Joel Osteen

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I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

John Denver

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The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Andrew Tobias

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The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

Maureen Dowd

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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

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I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.

Ann Makosinski

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My favorite TV couple is Edith and Archie Bunker. Because they were such individuals that I can't imagine anyone else playing them. And I think that Archie was one of the greatest characters ever on television. Even with his flaws, you loved him.

Michael Jai White

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I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

Solange Knowles

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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

Demian Bichir

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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Doug Aitken

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I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

Bonnie Hunt

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An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

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