Jamie Oliver
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients."
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Ingredients
176 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival."
Paul Rand
Graphic Designer
"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."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"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."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology."
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"Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself."
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"Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers."
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"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."
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"There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency."
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"I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients."
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"Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities."
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"Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients."
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"The right ingredients can create a legend."
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"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."
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"Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life"
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"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last."
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"Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting."
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"You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures."
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"...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done."
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"I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it."
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"A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional."
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"Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!"
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"An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy."
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"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"
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"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."
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