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Barack Obama Politician
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"We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe."

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Art Smith Chef
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"I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for."

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Andy Garcia Actor, Director
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"My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are."

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Russell Baker Writer
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"Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today."

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Kent Conrad Politician
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"Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything."

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