#om

A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. ↗

— Ted Allen

#audition #been #casting #catch #chance

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#feel #home #how #i #know

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

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#argument #because #bogus #claim #completely

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#atrocities #committed #culinary #forgive #forgive me

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

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout. ↗

— Ted Allen

#eat #food #home #i #made

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. ↗

— Tim Allen

#opposite #saying #smart #somebody #tells

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. ↗

— Tim Allen

#alive #care #lawn #maintenance #men

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. ↗

— Tom Allen

#comes #country #fouls #impasse #land