J J M De Groot Quotes

#1. I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit.

Anne Boleyn

#2. My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

Violante Placido

#3. With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

#4. Your enemy's enemy is your friend.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#5. The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Audre Lorde

#6. That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

Emile M. Cioran

#7. Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

James Cook

#8. The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

Roy Andries De Groot

#9. Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Roy Andries De Groot

#10. The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity.

Roy Andries De Groot

#11. Do you truly hate them? Or is it more the feeling you get when you're around them that you hate?

Mark Bowden