General quotes
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.
Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
I constantly think I'm a fraud — that this success is not warranted or justified.
The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
I really don't care for the proper chef coat.
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so'. I just like being myself.
I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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