#elf

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#myself #originally #songs #writing

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. ↗

— Sugar Ray Robinson

#believe in yourself #champ #else #will #you

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#bringing #close #did #doing #i

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#apprenticeship #aspirations #becoming #began #cooking

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#calling #feel #himself #i #important

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#makes #others #people #self-interest #some

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#contains #love #more #self-love #than

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. ↗

— Chris Rock

#funny #know #only #others #something