"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers."

-- Laurie Colwin

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“Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.”

Source : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books
“We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.”

Source : "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
“When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.”
“Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.”
“I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love.”

Source : "Italian diva hopes U.S. will surrender to her sound". "The Music Room" interview, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2003.
“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.”
“Nobody gets anything for nothing.”
“My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.”

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