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• A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

  Hal Borland

  Beautiful, Block, Lying

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• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Guiding Principles, Gmos, Justice

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Change, People, Outsiders

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• We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Religious, Thinking

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• Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Soy Sauce, Sushi, Chef

  "Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Talking, Matter, Shows

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• If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Humility, Restaurants, Restaurant Business

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 8, 2008.

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• If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Opportunity, Taste, Good Taste

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• I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Tomatoes, Vines

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• If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Rome, Pasta, Littles

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Cities, Majority

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• What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Years, Next Year

  "Regrets? He's had a few ..." by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2006.

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Positive Attitude, Diversity

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

  David Bowie

  Mother, Sex, Thinking

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• That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

  David Bowie

  Years, Hell, Cliche

  "St. David Bowie? Not yet, but faith leaders pay respects to dead rocker" by David Gibson, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

  Brandon Boyd

  Doors, People, Important

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• Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

  Brandon Boyd

  Ideas, People, Excited

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• I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, People, Stuff

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teamwork, Believe, Hard Work

  "Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography" by Gene Beley, (p. 284), 2006.

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• You fail only if you stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Failing, Inspiration To Write

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• If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Medicine

  "Legendary Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury Passed Away Today at Age 91" by Ethan Anderton, www.firstshowing.net. June 6, 2012.

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• Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Writing, People

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