"The fish is the star of the plate."

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Source : "'It's Not Me, It's the Oven'". Interview with Eve Gleichman, www.esquire.com. August 12, 2010.

Eric Ripert

#Stars Quotes #Plates Quotes #Fishes Quotes

“I can scare myself like a pro.”

Source : Interview with Cary Fukunaga, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
“This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.”
“The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.”
“The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.”
“I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.”

Source : Source: www.harbus.org
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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