Top 100 Padma Quotes
#1. One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#2. At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.
Salman Rushdie
#3. I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
Vidya Balan
#4. If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you ... don't see anywhere else.
Andy Cohen
#5. Is he your only child? I asked, "my only son" padma said. "My condolences" I said ... Anita Blake
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
Padma Lakshmi
#8. Will you go out with me for a cup of coffee?" "No." "No?" "I prefer tea, thank you.
Padma Venkatraman
#9. My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
Padma Lakshmi
#10. I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
Padma Lakshmi
#11. I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
Padma Lakshmi
#12. We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.
Padma Viswanathan
#13. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.
Padma Lakshmi
#14. If a dog barks at the sun, it does not dim the sun's brightness. (44)
Padma Venkatraman
#15. I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
Padma Lakshmi
#16. I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
Padma Lakshmi
#17. I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
Padma Lakshmi
#18. You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.
Padma Venkatraman
#19. People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
Padma Lakshmi
#20. One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi
#21. I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
Padma Lakshmi
#22. Jim was cricket practice; Govinda's the real match. Match. Get it?
Padma Venkatraman
#23. Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.
Padma Lakshmi
#24. People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
Padma Lakshmi
#25. My hand slips into his as though it remembers his touch and we've held hands often in a previous life.
Padma Venkatraman
#26. Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.
Padma Lakshmi
#27. I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
Padma Lakshmi
#28. I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
Padma Lakshmi
#29. Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
Padma Lakshmi
#30. It feels like Shiva destroyed my universes of possibility, like He's dancing on the ashes of my snatched away dreams.
Padma Venkatraman
#31. I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
Padma Lakshmi
#32. She had always thought of her life as a series of submissions to God. What if she has been making her own decisions all along?
Padma Viswanathan
#33. Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.
Padma Lakshmi
#34. Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi
#35. My skin tingles as I step into the music,
give in to the icy thrill of pleasure
that spreads through me whenever I dance,
the pleasure of leaping into a cool lake on a
sweltering day.
Padma Venkatraman
#36. I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma Lakshmi
#37. Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.
Padma Lakshmi
#38. For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
Padma Lakshmi
#39. How does the new leg feel?' I don't point out their question misses a point: even this new leg doesn't feel.
Padma Venkatraman
#40. Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
Padma Lakshmi
#41. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
Padma Lakshmi
#42. If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
Padma Lakshmi
#43. I cannot remember what we talked about except that we never stopped talking.
Padma Lakshmi
#44. Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
Padma Lakshmi
#45. Commitment is easy before a relationship requires compromise and obligation.
Padma Lakshmi
#46. I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!
Padma Lakshmi
#47. I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.
Padma Lakshmi
#48. I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Padma Lakshmi
#49. All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
Padma Lakshmi
#50. In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um ...
Padma Lakshmi
#51. I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
Padma Lakshmi
#52. For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art ... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.
Padma Subrahmanyam
#53. I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
Padma Lakshmi
#54. DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.
Padma Lakshmi
#55. I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
Padma Lakshmi
#56. The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess.
Padma Lakshmi
#57. experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When
Padma Lakshmi
#58. Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
Padma Lakshmi
#59. I want to tell the nurses no scale can measure
the pain of my dreams
dancing
beyond reach.
Padma Venkatraman
#61. From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
Padma Lakshmi
#63. I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.
Padma Lakshmi
#64. Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
Padma Lakshmi
#65. When there is little you can do, you do what you can.
Padma Lakshmi
#66. I didn't know what the future held in store for me, but I felt hopeful.
Padma Lakshmi
#67. She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.
Padma Lakshmi
#68. You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
Padma Lakshmi
#69. I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.
Padma Lakshmi
#70. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.
Padma Venkatraman
#71. Hearing doctors tell you that you can't get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.
Padma Lakshmi
#72. My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
Padma Lakshmi
#73. In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)
Padma Venkatraman
#74. Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.
Padma Lakshmi
#76. I tend to sleep in the nude ... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
Padma Lakshmi
#77. Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
Padma Lakshmi
#78. The heart knows no pain sharper than love's arrow.
Padma Lakshmi
#79. I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
#80. I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
Padma Lakshmi
#81. I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.
Padma Lakshmi
#82. In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
#83. An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
Padma Lakshmi
#84. I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
Padma Lakshmi
#85. And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don't regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
Padma Lakshmi
#86. Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.
Padma Lakshmi
#87. I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way ... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
Padma Lakshmi
#88. Perhaps I didn't voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.
Padma Lakshmi
#89. Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,
Padma Lakshmi
#90. Auguste Escoffier into what we now know as the five mother sauces of French cuisine. It's funny
Padma Lakshmi
#91. I didn't wholly identify with the collective experiences of children in either place. I had one foot in each culture, but no firm footing in either of them. At
Padma Lakshmi
#92. The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but maybe stop you from being so afraid.
Padma Viswanathan
#93. He was everything I wasn't. He was a lot of what I wanted to be.
Padma Lakshmi
#94. I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
#95. It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
Padma Lakshmi
#96. She is a pebble skipping
over the surface of a lake.
As I once was.
Not a deep sinking stone that leaves widening ripples behind
after it's disappeared.
As I hope to be.
Padma Venkatraman
#97. The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.
Padma Lakshmi
#98. She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I
Padma Lakshmi
#99. I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
Padma Lakshmi
#100. Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi
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