Charlie Trotter quote: "I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics."

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All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the over...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with t...
CHARLIE TROTTER

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite...
CHARLIE TROTTER

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as th...
CHARLIE TROTTER

It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than i...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approac...
CHARLIE TROTTER

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together...
CHARLIE TROTTER

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foo...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day p...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
CHARLIE TROTTER

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who spe...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ide...
CHARLIE TROTTER

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
CHARLIE TROTTER

I'm not trying to become the spokesman for this kind of thing, but you've got to look hard and close...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.
CHARLIE TROTTER

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for the...
CHARLIE TROTTER

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to w...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I wouldn't call it designer food. It's more proven experts in the field.
CHARLIE TROTTER

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
CHARLIE TROTTER

improvisation is about finding your own voice. When you prepare a dish, even if you make the same on...
CHARLIE TROTTER

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to lif...
CHARLIE TROTTER

In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to...
CHARLIE TROTTER

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
CHARLIE TROTTER

Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I believe in focusing on details.
CHARLIE TROTTER

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble in...
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For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. ...
CHARLIE TROTTER

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.
CHARLIE TROTTER

If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a to...
CHARLIE TROTTER

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young p...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You l...
CHARLIE TROTTER

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own vo...
CHARLIE TROTTER

It is increasingly clear that there is very little else to recover from the scene,
ANDY TROTTER

We say that London is open for business. If we don't do that, then the terrorists will have won and ...
ANDY TROTTER

Our concern would be if the demonstration turns into riots or damage and we have got to be prepared ...
ANDY TROTTER

All the police forces of London are all working together to keep London safe.
ANDY TROTTER

It is unprecedented, but equally these are unprecedented times. These are the biggest threats that L...
ANDY TROTTER

We have a severe fire in one of those carriages, with tremendous devastation in there, ... And we fa...
ANDY TROTTER

If they didn't perish in the bombs they are still out there somewhere or have left the country.
ANDY TROTTER

There are additional bodies ... ... We think there may well be further fatalities.
ANDY TROTTER

Crime officers...are now combing the site looking for evidence to find out what happened,
ANDY TROTTER

It is quite remarkable...if you look at the scene...which is a scene of some great devastation, that...
ANDY TROTTER

These next three weeks are going to tell the tale of this team. It's imperative that we go down ther...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

When the whistle blows, it's hit and tackle. ... Are you going to put a knot on somebody?
JEREMIAH TROTTER

It should have been more than that. When you hit the quarterback, especially with the crown of your ...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

When the Eagles lost Hugh [defensive end Hugh Douglas] that year, they had to go out and get Jevon K...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

[Asked yesterday if] justice has been served, ... No, no, no... You never want a fellow athlete to g...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

T.O.'s my friend. Donovan's my friend. They're both good guys, no matter what perception is out ther...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

We can get this thing rolling again. We just gave up too many plays.
JEREMIAH TROTTER

The way the season has gone, at some point you want to stop the bleeding. Now we can get away from t...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

We understand that a lot of things happened this year. We didn't play nearly up to our capabilities ...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

The ref said I threw a punch, but I didn't throw a punch,
JEREMIAH TROTTER

Hey, you've got your own pilot. I don't have my own pilot.
JEREMIAH TROTTER

They should fine the referee. That's who they should fine, for that bad call. I do think referees sh...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

They should have fined the referee. That's who they should have fined for that bad call. I do think ...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

I don't think it escalated to the point where anybody should have got kicked out of the game.
JEREMIAH TROTTER

We know we are a nasty defence. We know we are a good defence, but last year we didn't have enough t...
JEREMIAH TROTTER

It did set about an incredible scramble yesterday to try to go back and re-evaluate those 20 student...
DENNIS TROTTER

The potential of a 100-point swing in a student's SAT score, even at a place like F&M that has an SA...
DENNIS TROTTER

As the party who screwed up you have a responsibility to fess up to the problem and provide a clear ...
DENNIS TROTTER

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with simi...
WILFRED TROTTER

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LES TROTTER

We'd like to get that one, but if we don't, we're going to see them again hopefully. We're not going...
LES TROTTER

In terms of running, we try to keep each other in check, as normal as possible. If one wants to go o...
KATY TROTTER

We need to remain cohesive as a team. Individually, everyone wants to improve. I want to be an All-A...
KATY TROTTER

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.
KATY TROTTER

We just enjoy this relay very much. It's a special relay for us.
KATY TROTTER

We provide quality service and have great relationships with our customers. We want to address their...
JOSEPH TROTTER

It?s difficult to find talented, gifted and creative people who are so loyal.
JOSEPH TROTTER

On the steps leading to a door
was a scrub brush that was blue.
I snatched it quick and ra...
MELINDA K. TROTTER

Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.
They liked to run races for cheese.
Mice were ...
MELINDA K. TROTTER

Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.
Out popped his head for a quick look, then ...
MELINDA K. TROTTER

That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and anno...
MELINDA K. TROTTER

Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll...
MELINDA K. TROTTER

Sit down Rodney. Keep your brains warm.
DEREK DEL BOY TROTTER

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.
CHARLIE SIMPSON

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blo...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in ...
CHARLIE PUTH

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
CHARLIE ERGEN

Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the H...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a ...
CHARLIE CRIST

I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.
CHARLIE CARVER

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there ...
CHARLIE HADEN

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ...
CHARLIE ROWE

There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get ...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dump...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE

I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or b...
CHARLIE PUTH

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of...
CHARLIE PARKER

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was...
CHARLIE COX

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better...
CHARLIE RICH

Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri...
CHARLIE PUTH

My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, 'I'm going to bring Brady to this ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's bor...
CHARLIE BEWLEY

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with e...
CHARLIE SHEDD

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he i...
CHARLIE ADAM

Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never ...
CHARLIE PUTH

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in ...
CHARLIE HUNTER

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...
CHARLIE PARKER

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a ca...
CHARLIE ERGEN

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of ...
CHARLIE BROOKER

It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emer...
CHARLIE BROOKER

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and a...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
CHARLIE FINLEY

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

In the end, everything is a gag.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pla...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from m...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roa...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
CHARLIE BROWN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pl...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The...
CHARLIE BROWN

Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set
CHARLIE CHAN

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher p...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conque...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.
CHARLIE GRANDY

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them a...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo...
CHARLIE WATTS

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them....
CHARLIE ADAM

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different hea...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the rac...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are respons...
CHARLIE PIERCE

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CHARLIE ROSE

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it do...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligat...
CHARLIE PIERCE

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.
CHARLIE ROWE

Why should poetry have to make sense?
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising pa...
CHARLIE PIERCE

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the ris...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
CHARLIE PUTH

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a ...
CHARLIE DANIELS

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John...
CHARLIE PUTH

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we e...
CHARLIE DENT

I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I&#...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestl...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts o...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an ex...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

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CHARLIE KIMBALL

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has m...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am travelin...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

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CHARLIE KIMBALL

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge h...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

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CHARLIE KIMBALL

My team fills two separate drink bottles for me in the car. One is water, and the other has orange j...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wire...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day o...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to c...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionis...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and sp...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Frida...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand stil...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
CHARLIE ROWE

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clut...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

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Charlie Trotter

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

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