#make

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind. ↗

— Steve Allen

#gambler #heavy #how #i #just

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cake #chicago #chocolate #chocolate cake #dessert

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat. ↗

— Ted Allen

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cook #days #elaborate

One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural. ↗

— Ted Allen

#because #becoming #benefits #chopped #dish

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. ↗

— Woody Allen

#kissinger #know #makes #mistakes #taught

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #feel #films #i #job

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. ↗

— Woody Allen

#get #i #i can #i think #idea

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. ↗

— Woody Allen

#beverly #beverly hills #garbage #hills #into

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #born #everyone #family #female