#very

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#days #every #i #i love #itself

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#becomes #breakdown #each #get #left

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#business #business partner #care #chef #doors

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#common #common sense #earlier #everybody #grates

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#everyone #formality #get #grilling #involved

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#acceptable #be yourself #become #conservative #describe

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.' ↗

— Bobby Flay

#great #great idea #i #i think #idea

It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#chances #cook #going #grill #important

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish. As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. it opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. in moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#frederick-douglass #reading #slavery #education

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#day #emotional #end #end of the day #everybody