Cooks Quotes - Page 3

• Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Music, Food, Literature

  Quoted in The NewYork Times, 16 Nov 1967.

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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• I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

  Julia Child

  Inspiration, Food, Home Cooking

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• My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

  Nora Ephron

  Mother, Food, Home Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 12, 2014

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• I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

  Monique Coleman

  Kitchen, Black, Peas

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• The French cook; we open tins.

  John Galsworthy

  Tin

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Another Sheaf”, p.98, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

  Dom DeLuise

  Years, Puberty, Decided

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• I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Meals, Good Meals

  "Then & Now: Ekaterina Gordeeva". www.cnn.com. June 22, 2005.

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• I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

  Hector Elizondo

  Littles, Spoiled, Concerned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Paul Nurse

  Mother, Father, Years

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• They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

  Stefanie Powers

  Kissing, Guy, Cooking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

  Paul Prudhomme

  World, Way, Hometown

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• Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

  Jilly Cooper

  Used, Dazzling, Parkinson

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• Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

  Woody Allen

  Frozen, Dinner, Tvs

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• Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

  Alan Watts

  Educational, Clothes, Giving

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• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Beast, Reason

  Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

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• In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Stories, Process

  "Routine inquiries: what goes into a writing 'process'?" by Jean Hannah Edelstein, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

  Charlie Trotter

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

  Paul Prudhomme

  Littles, Restaurants, Little Money

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Southern, Hemisphere

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• Life itself is the proper binge.

  Julia Child

  Life, Food, Weight Loss

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• It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

  Julia Child

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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