#king

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking. ↗

— Rick Allen

#i #i think #important #important thing #most

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#chef #cook #cooking #food #home

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special. ↗

— Ted Allen

#admire #also #america #attention #beautiful

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#acting class #back #busy #busy working #class

Mrs. Cole was a good democrat. She hated all kids equally. ↗

— Stephen King

#humor #it #stephen-king #equality

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. ↗

— Carol Alt

#attaining #failure #goal #risking #something

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#fan #fit #i #like #making

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working. ↗

— Carol Alt

#changing #dire #dire need #i #model

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like