"The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL"

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Source : "Alex Atala on creativity and innovation in cuisine". Alex Atala's speech at the 2013 Design Indaba Conference, www.designindaba.com. March 18, 2014.

Alex Atala

“I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible,Â the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day weâ€™ll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state.”

Source : "Open door: Misleading pullquotes" by Chris Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2011.
“The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.”
“Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.”
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
“We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.”
“You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.”
“I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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