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Quote: One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect of food culture or chef culture that people can look at in a new way.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Quote: Where there is love there is light.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Where there is love...

Quote: I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.
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Stephen Hawking
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I can't disguise myself...

Quote: Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Oscar Wilde
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Morality is simply the...

Quote: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
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Maya Angelou
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Quote: It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
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C. S. Lewis
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It is when we...

Quote: Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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Buddha
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Quote: A vine cannot behave olively, nor an olive tree vinely – it is impossible, inconceivable. No more can a human being wholly efface his native disposition.
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Marcus Aurelius
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A vine cannot behave...

Quote: Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Use what language you...

Quote: Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Mark Twain
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Grief can take care...

Quote: Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
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Buddha
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Quote: This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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Mother Teresa
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Quote: An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: The Law is Reason free from Passion.
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Aristotle
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The Law is Reason...

Quote: At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Quote: The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: There's place and means for every man alive.
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
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George Orwell
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Quote: When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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Confucius
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Quote: A jug fills drop by drop.
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Buddha
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Quote: What was God doing before the divine creation?
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
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Voltaire
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Quote: The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Voltaire
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