- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home, Mom served us turkey breakfast links that she got at the health-food store. But whenever we went out for breakfast, she let my brothers and me order pork sausages (though, inexplicably, not bacon).
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends have warned me that I can be a bully in the kitchen. With every fledgling relationship, I'm anxiously aware that the simple act of cooking alongside my new paramour can unleash havoc.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was aware of the kids-don't-like-vegetables trope, but it didn't make much sense to me. I never had any choice; all the traditional Iranian dishes my mom cooked teemed with herbs and vegetables.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grilling used to make me nervous, but then I learned to view the fire as just another source of heat, no different from a stove or an oven.
- Each Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My students regularly spend 20 hours or more in the kitchen with me. I try to teach them that even the most well-written recipe for, say, gazpacho can never take into account the ways in which a tomato that's lapped each morning and evening by coastal fog will taste completely different from one grown in a hot, inland valley.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People never used to look at me twice. That was my superpower: When I met someone, I could decide whether to care about them based on whether they cared about me.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only be me!
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really fun, but I've always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very white, homogeneous community in San Diego - where, in second grade, I was called a terrorist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will only be 29 in 2016 for the European Championships, but the French national team doesn't make me happy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver - so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to smile because we, as footballers, are really lucky to do the job we do. But this is not just a job for me. It's my passion.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020