#rve

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. ↗

— Ina Garten

#anything #carve #cooked #everything #fun

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ↗

— Bill Gates

#change #climate #climate change #deserves #huge

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#exciting #i #lot #never #sounds

It's OK to have a little bit of curve. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#curve #little #little bit #ok

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#entertainer #i #nominated #think #year

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗