#led

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#apart #art #best #born #british

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#due #effort #failed #i #lack

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#always #control #had #her #i

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#bother #called #calls #calm #care

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#beneficial #fraught #friendships #generally #hugely

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#called #could #did #i #realize

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bin #bombings #cells #findings #him

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#compliments #insults #leave #prepared #us

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#command #dependent #detailed #each #grow