"We are so bemused by our own petard,……" — Julia Child
"We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively."
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168 Quotes by Julia Child
Julia Child has 168 quotes on this site.
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The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be…
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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
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I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you…
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out…
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do…
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll…
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It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
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In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of…
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In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
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I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…
— Alexander Pope
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The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a…
— Richard Lindzen
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Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified…
— Ann Coulter
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material…
— R. D. Laing
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
— Sarah Dessen
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Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
— Charles Simic
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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
— Dennis Lehane
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"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed…
— Stephen King
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A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and…
— David Chalmers
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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many…
— Sarah Dessen
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Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You…
— Diana Rowland
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