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We live in a complicated world. I can't imagine what it's like to have every single person in the industry wait for your opinion on every... matter. He's only human. That's a lot of pressure, some will say he chose that path or whatever, but I'd like to think that some people just go with the flow, be it healthy for them or not, because they think it's what they're supposed to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No trace of narcotics. No trace of any toxic products. Trace of medicines in therapeutic dose. Trace of alcohol.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My wife and I live, have lived, very separate lives for years, there’s no drama here. We get along really, really well and it’s not a big lifestyle change happening here.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw... some dark genie inside me -- that I very much hesitate to call a disease -- that led me to dope.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think, unfortunately, it's unrealistic to expect people who have been in the business a long time -- men, in particular -- to change their hearts and minds. ... I would hope that they do, but I'm just not that optimistic about the human race.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I look back, like, I hope, a lot of men in that industry and say -- not so much' what did I do or not do ?' -- but' what did I see and what did I let slide ? What did I not notice ?'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's like a horror movie, it's like CSI : Soup. I'm eating out of an open wound.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
From my privileged vantage point, I've encountered a lot of extraordinary people with exciting things to say. This is a chance to get those voices heard. We look forward to publishing an unusual mix of new authors, existing works, neglected or under-appreciated masterworks, and translations of people from elsewhere who we think are just too damned brilliant not to be available in English.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We had been talking for nearly a year. It was very, very closely held, cNN did not know, the camera people did not know. Only a very tight group at [ production company ] Zero Point Zero, my partners, me and very few people at the White House. It was very closely held. At the dinner, Bourdain praised Obama for being.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was sharing a house in Provincetown one summer with a bunch of friends from high school. I was not contributing to the rent, and everybody I was living with was working in seasonal jobs at restaurants either as cooks or floor staff, one night they just said, we need a dishwasher and it’s going to be you, since you are not contributing to the rent. SoI got started as a dishwasher and fell in love with the whole business and the whole subculture.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Once I did that risky thing, leaving the only profession I knew to become a professional writer and TV guy, I was, and continue to be, very careful about the decisions I make every day, that was really the first time I started thinking about saving money. About not finding myself in that terrifying space, that uncertainty that goes back to childhood.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I promised a certain kind of market to New Yorkers and to potential vendors, and if that vision becomes clouded, diluted or compromised, it is no longer something that our city needs, i remain hopeful that New York will someday have such a market — I still passionately wish to create this resource that New Yorkers deserve.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I ’m not saying I know the guy personally, not like I ’d hug him, but I ’m saying that as a New Yorker, we pretty much are neighbors.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I will never eat in Alessandro Borgognone restaurant. I have utter contempt for Alessandro Borgognone, utter and complete contempt.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I mean, I never had the highest opinion of him in the first place, but I guess he’s the last person in this life I should look to for principles, david Burke went in and took over [ the space Jose Andres had originally occupied ], and promptly tried to poach David Burke staff, I hear. This was after Jose Andres reached out and said Everyone welcome Jose Andres to Washington, don’t hold it against Jose Andres, just because I decided to pull out. So Burke’s a steaming loaf of sh --, as far as I ’m concerned, and feel free to quote me.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have no plans to do so, i like dogs. However, after about three minutes of her harangue I may or may not have threatened to run right out and get myself a puppy smoothie.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I'm sure I'm not alone here. Were clowns ever funny? No. Of course not. They were always sinister figures, disguising their homicidal intentions under thick make-up, all the while their crawl spaces and chest freezers were brimming with Cub Scout parts.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I sort of feel in a heartfelt way for Guy [Fieri]. I wonder about him. He’s 52 years-old and still rolling around in the flame outfit . . . What does he do? How does Guy Fieri de-douche?
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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