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Jacques d'Amboise

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JACQUES BARZUN In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already mode...
JACQUES DERRIDA Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
JACQUES BARZUN Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have be...
MARTIN JACQUES If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi...
MARTIN JACQUES Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an Amer...
MARTIN JACQUES Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o...
JACQUES VERGES In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a...
JACQUES DERRIDA Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It...
MARTIN JACQUES I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
JACQUES DERRIDA It is good for society to have this introspection.
JACQUES VERGES Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social...
JACQUES ELLUL What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
JACQUES LACAN If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its ...
MARTIN JACQUES The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a ...
JACQUES DERRIDA For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad...
JACQUES PEPIN When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose...
JACQUES PEPIN When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ...
JACQUES PEPIN I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during...
JACQUES PEPIN My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuba...
JACQUES PEPIN I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or raci...
JACQUES PEPIN I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin...
JACQUES PEPIN I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'E...
JACQUES PEPIN You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream...
JACQUES PEPIN I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to...
JACQUES PEPIN Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons....
JACQUES PEPIN My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you ge...
JACQUES PEPIN If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
JACQUES PEPIN You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becom...
JACQUES PEPIN Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what ...
JACQUES PEPIN All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's ve...
JACQUES PEPIN Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have mome...
JACQUES PEPIN The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooki...
JACQUES PEPIN Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
JACQUES PEPIN I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr...
JACQUES PEPIN There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, i...
MARTIN JACQUES Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i...
MARTIN JACQUES The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person ...
JACQUES DELORS Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...
JACQUES CHIRAC Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, t...
MARTIN JACQUES I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with c...
JACQUES PEPIN Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
JACQUES MARITAIN I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou...
BRIAN JACQUES You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
JACQUES ROUMAIN Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
JACQUES DERRIDA Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES