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Julia Child

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01Undated

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

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02Undated

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

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03Undated

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

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04Undated

Fat gives things flavor.

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05Undated

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.

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06Undated

Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

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07Undated

You must have discipline to have fun.

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08Undated

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

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09Undated

Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.

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10Undated

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

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11Undated

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

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12Undated

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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13Undated

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

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14Undated

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

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15Undated

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

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16Undated

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

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17Undated

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

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18Undated

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

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19Undated

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

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20Undated

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

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21Undated

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

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22Undated

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

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23Undated

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

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24Undated

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

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