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• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food… — Mario Batali
• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.… — Geraldine Brooks
• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud
• Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese… — Carlo Petrini
• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure… — Immanuel Kant
• I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of… — Oscar Niemeyer
• I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so… — Oscar Niemeyer
• Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is… — Harry Seidler
• While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant,… — Emanuel Lasker
• Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. — Joan Armatrading
• I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that… — Jorge Luis Borges
• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with… — Philip Hensher

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