quotes about Ingredients
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
-- Adam Gopnik -
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
-- Adolph Green -
There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
-- Akio Morita -
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
-- Alex Haley -
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The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
-- Alfred Brendel -
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
-- Ali Smith -
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
-- Alice WatersSource : Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.14, Clarkson Potter
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Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
-- Alice Waters -
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
-- Alphonse Karr -
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
-- Alton Brown -
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
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Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
-- Aung San Suu KyiSource : "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.
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An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.
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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.
-- Bran FerrenSource : "To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
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If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
-- Brené Brown -
Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
-- Catherine Ryan HydeSource : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2014). “Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning
-- Chris Murray -
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
-- Chuck Mangione -
It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.
-- Conor McGregor -
The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.
-- Criss Jami -
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Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
-- Criss Jami -
I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
-- Cyra McFadden -
Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.
-- Dale Carnegie -
In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.
-- Dan BarberSource : Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.120, Penguin
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Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.
-- Daniel Handler -
It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.
-- David Brooks -
The key ingredient to better content is separating the single from the stream.
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
-- Dawn PowellSource : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
-- Denis Waitley -
Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
-- Eddie Murphy -
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
-- Edward de Bono -
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I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.
-- Edward HerrmannSource : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
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we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
-- Ethel M. Dell -
Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.
-- Fergus HendersonSource : Fergus Henderson (2012). “The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking”, p.5, A&C Black
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
-- Ferran Adria -
We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.
-- Fritz Maytag -
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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
-- Gail Simmons -
Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists 'tomato' as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.
-- Giada De LaurentiisSource : "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.
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In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.
-- Grant Achatz -
You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
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If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.
-- Isaiah BerlinSource : "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.
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There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
-- James BeardSource : James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”
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In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.
-- James MacArthur -
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Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.
-- Jamie Oliver -
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
-- Jane HamiltonSource : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.
-- Jane Stanton HitchcockSource : Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books
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I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic.
-- Janice DickinsonSource : "'I love my body,' declares model Janice Dickinson as she goes naked at 55". www.dailymail.co.uk. July 27, 2010.
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Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
-- Jeremy CollierSource : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.101
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The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
-- Jesse Robredo -
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
-- John Dewey -
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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
-- John Milton -
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.
-- Joost Meerloo -
Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.
-- Jose Andres -
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Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.
-- Jose GarcesSource : "Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" By Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.
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I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
-- Joseph Heller -
Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.
-- Judi Dench -
Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
-- Julia Child -
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The secret ingredient to sex is love.
-- Lars von TrierSource : "Fictional character: B". "Nymphomaniac: Vol. I", www.imdb.com. 2013.
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One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.
-- Leon M. LedermanSource : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.
-- Macdonald Critchley -
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
-- Malcolm X -
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Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley -
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
-- Mario BataliSource : "An Introduction and Rallying Cry". www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.
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The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.
-- Mario Batali -
There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion
-- Martha Stewart -
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The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.
-- Martin Yan -
Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
-- Marvin J. Ashton -
I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.
-- Masaharu MorimotoSource : "The Fast Five | Speedy Cooking Tips from Top Experts". Food & Wine Magazine Interview, www.foodandwine.com. September 1, 2004.
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The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.
-- Michael Jackson -
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Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.
-- Michael Kitson -
We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
-- Michael McCaul -
In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn't be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you're highlighting this astounding artichoke, it's got to be an astounding artichoke.
-- Michael Pollan -
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
-- Michael Pollan -
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Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
-- Michael Pollan -
On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
-- Michael Symon -
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
-- Pat SummittSource : Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway
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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
-- Patrick LencioniSource : Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons
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Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.
-- Paul Feyerabend -
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.
-- Paul Rand -
The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.
-- Pearl Bailey -
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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
-- Peg Bracken -
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.
-- Pete CarrilSource : Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press
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suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
-- Pierre Trudeau -