"I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!"

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Source : "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

Ina Garten

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“There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.”
“Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.”
“No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.”

Source : "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.
“Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.”
“It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.”
“Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.”
“We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you ...”

Source : "Emmy Rossum Explains Sex Scenes On ‘Chelsea Lately’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.
“I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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