Top 92 Blumenthal Quotes
#1. I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.
Heston Blumenthal
#2. The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal
#3. While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed ... Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.
Max Blumenthal
#4. It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
#5. Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal
#6. At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal
#7. It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.
Max Blumenthal
#8. You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
Heston Blumenthal
#9. There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
Heston Blumenthal
#10. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
Charles Hazlewood
#11. It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
Sidney Blumenthal
#14. And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
Heston Blumenthal
#15. To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.
Heston Blumenthal
#16. Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction.
Brett Blumenthal
#18. I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills ... all apart from cooking.
Heston Blumenthal
#19. No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
Heston Blumenthal
#20. I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.
Max Blumenthal
#22. Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
Sidney Blumenthal
#23. My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.
Max Blumenthal
#24. The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
Sidney Blumenthal
#25. It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
Sidney Blumenthal
#27. The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Sidney Blumenthal
#28. You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
Heston Blumenthal
#30. There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.
Richard Blumenthal
#31. If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
Sidney Blumenthal
#32. On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal
#33. I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.
Heston Blumenthal
#34. The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Sidney Blumenthal
#35. At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.
Heston Blumenthal
#36. Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.
Richard Blumenthal
#37. I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
Heston Blumenthal
#38. You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
Heston Blumenthal
#39. When a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
Andrew Sullivan
#40. We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Sidney Blumenthal
#43. We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.
Heston Blumenthal
#44. On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
Sidney Blumenthal
#45. It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Sidney Blumenthal
#46. But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.
Heston Blumenthal
#48. It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.
Heston Blumenthal
#49. You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.
Max Blumenthal
#50. But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal
#51. Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
Heston Blumenthal
#52. was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments," he said later. After seeing what Xerox called a graphical user interface (sometimes pronounced
Karen Blumenthal
#53. A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
Wolfgang Puck
#54. Principle of Change #5: Without proper action, change cannot occur.
Brett Blumenthal
#55. The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
Sidney Blumenthal
#56. Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Sidney Blumenthal
#57. Principle of Change #6: Change is an ever-evolving process.
Brett Blumenthal
#59. Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.
Richard Blumenthal
#60. I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
Heston Blumenthal
#61. This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.
Heston Blumenthal
#62. Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
Heston Blumenthal
#63. I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.
Richard Blumenthal
#64. As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
#66. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...
Christopher Hitchens
#68. Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.
Brett Blumenthal
#69. I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.
Heston Blumenthal
#71. Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.
Max Blumenthal
#72. I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.
Max Blumenthal
#73. I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.
Heston Blumenthal
#75. When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.
Deborah Blumenthal
#76. We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
Heston Blumenthal
#77. Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
Sidney Blumenthal
#78. Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal
#80. What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
Sidney Blumenthal
#81. As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.
Heston Blumenthal
#82. One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.
David Blumenthal
#83. Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal
#84. There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?
Max Blumenthal
#85. Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?
Lynn Freed
#86. After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.
Max Blumenthal
#88. Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed.
Brett Blumenthal
#89. And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
Sidney Blumenthal
#90. Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
David Blumenthal
#91. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.
Gilad Atzmon
#92. Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling.
Heston Blumenthal
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