#real

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#band #being #corporate #dreaming #experience

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

I'm not real good at romance. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #real #romance

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #life #me #now #pleased

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. ↗

— David R. Brower

#million #perhaps #realize #ten #thousand

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. ↗

— David R. Brower

#bad #loaded #me #realistic #uses

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#becomes #bright #concept #enough #excited

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong. ↗

— Alton Brown

#after #basically #big #bubble #bubbles

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Alton Brown

#anymore #being #defensive #even #fake

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher. ↗

— Alton Brown

#home #i #like #really #teacher