"When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is."

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Source : Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.14, Clarkson Potter

Alice Waters

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“Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.”
“In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.”
“You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.”

Source : FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Dec 19, 2012
“Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.”
“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital
“The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.”
“Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.”
“You want to dance with me, angel tits?”

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