I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.
The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.
How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento. . . he's on the team. I ain't going.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.