Raymond Blanc quotes

“When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.”
-- Raymond Blanc

Source : "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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“I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.”
-- Raymond Blanc

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“Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.”
-- Raymond Blanc

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“It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.”
-- Raymond Blanc

Source : "Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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“To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate”
-- Raymond Blanc

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“When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.”

“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”

Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

“All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.”

“I know you love her. I’ve never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister’s fangs. Or I will.”

“I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.”

Source : Oscar Award for Best Leading Actor Acceptance Address, Delivered 23 March 2003, Kodak Theater, Hollywood, California

“She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.”

“Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand...”