"Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You canâ€™t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris."

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Alain Ducasse

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“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

Source : Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)
“Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.”
“There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
“I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.”
“I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.”
“To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.”
“Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.”
“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin

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