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Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.