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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  Salma Hayek

  Mexican, Together, Lucky

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• America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

  Michael Pollan

  America, Environmental, Sugar Cookies

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• Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

  Nelly

  Destiny, Expression

  Song: Nellyville, Album: Nellyville

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Want

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• I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

  Erma Bombeck

  Weekend, Pie, Pecans

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• Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Moving, Book, Praying

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• You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Team, Inspiration

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• In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Men, Generations, Well Known

  Quoted in Jean Renoir, Renoir My Father (1958)

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• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  Jacques Pepin

  Book, Past, Years

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• Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

  Alton Brown

  Hate, Writing, Done

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• The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Self, Feminist, Movement

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• You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

  Bear Grylls

  Expectations, Disaster

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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• Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

  Robert Harris

  Growing Up, Kids, Missing

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• But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.

  Eva Herzigova

  Keys, Cake, Eggs

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Guarantees, Planning, Brilliant

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• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  Ina Garten

  Sweet, Fun, Party

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

  Bernard Baruch

  Success, Jobs, Independent

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• It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

  David Brooks

  Egypt, Transition, Ingredients

  "Defending the Coup". www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2013.

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• The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Running, Book, Home

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• I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hate, Thinking, Italian

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• Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

  Paula Deen

  Grandmother, Years, Southern

  "Paula Deen's Comeuppance?" by Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. January 18, 2012.

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• On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.

  Paula Deen

  Yummy, Pie, People

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