Wylie Dufresne quotes

Wylie Dufresne quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.”
-- Wylie Dufresne

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“Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.”
-- Wylie Dufresne

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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.”
“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”
“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
“I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green”
“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”

Source : "Insatiable creatures" by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.
“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.”
“When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.”
“Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.”

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