"Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir."

-- Leo Rosten

#Women Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Noir Quotes

“All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'”
“I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.”
“I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.”
“I don't want to get rich - just live good.”
“Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.”
“Dumbness and silence are two different things.”
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”

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“The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.”

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