Blumenthal Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs, He trusted that the dots would connect . He believed the reward is the journey.
He followed his heart. He didn't settle for Okay.
He did what he loved. And if he didn't love what he did, if didn't believe it was a great work, he redid it again and again.
He tried to live each day as though it really matter, even before he had cancer. — Karen Blumenthal

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability. — Max Blumenthal

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

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

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

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment. — Richard Blumenthal

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

When a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. — Andrew Sullivan

There will be no Palestinian state — Max Blumenthal

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

I tend to take negative comments to heart. — Heston Blumenthal

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

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change — Brett Blumenthal

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars. — Heston Blumenthal

Being branded number one restaurant in the world is actually very humbling. — Heston Blumenthal

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

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. — Sidney Blumenthal

One aspect of Samantha's personality that drove me nuts was her tendency to reveal herself via literary allusions. She called it a quirk, but it was more of a compulsion. Her mother was Lady Macbeth; her father, Big Daddy. An uncle she liked was Mr. Micawber, a favorite governess, Jane Eyre; a doting professor, Mr. Chips.
This curious habit of hers quickly made the voyage from eccentric to bizarre when she began to invoke the names of literary characters to describe moments in our relationship. When she thought I was treating her rudely, she called me Wolf Larsen; if I was standoffish, I was Mr. Darcy; when I dressed too shabbily, I was Tom Joad.
Once, in bed, she yelled out the name Victor as she approached orgasm. I assumed she was referring to Victor Hugo because she'd been reading 'Les Miserables.'. It didn't really bother me that much though it was a little odd being with a woman who thought she was having sex with a dead French author. — John Blumenthal

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways. — Heston Blumenthal

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby. — Heston Blumenthal

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault. — Heston Blumenthal

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

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

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

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

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times. — Heston Blumenthal

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here. — Richard Blumenthal

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

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

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

Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction. — Brett Blumenthal

Principle of Change #6: Change is an ever-evolving process. — Brett Blumenthal

If we don't kill, we will cease to exist — Max Blumenthal

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

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

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

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

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

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. — Heston Blumenthal

Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed. — Brett Blumenthal

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste. — Heston Blumenthal

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure. — Heston Blumenthal

Principle of Change #5: Without proper action, change cannot occur. — Brett Blumenthal

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream. — Heston Blumenthal

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism. — Max Blumenthal

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy. — Heston Blumenthal

Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information. — David Blumenthal

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

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. — Heston Blumenthal

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

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day. — Heston Blumenthal

was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments," he said later. After seeing what Xerox called a graphical user interface (sometimes pronounced — Karen Blumenthal

It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah. — Max Blumenthal

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

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

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

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. — Heston Blumenthal

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

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

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

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

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. — Sidney Blumenthal

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock. — Heston Blumenthal

On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris. — Christopher Hitchens

What gets me excited is the original principle. — Heston Blumenthal

I am not the world's most confident person. — Heston Blumenthal

the commencement speaker. The billionaire founder — Karen Blumenthal

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

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

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu. — Heston Blumenthal

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

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

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal

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

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

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

The Tamimis were notable among the people of the West Bank, and not only for their striking appearance. Nearly everyone in the village bore a pale complexion, like Northern Europeans, with hair colored bright blonde or sandy brown, light-colored eyes, and high, sharply angled cheekbones. Their features reflected a lineage drawn directly from the Crusaders, offering a reminder of the many invaders and occupiers whose blood became intertwined with the heritage of Palestine. — Max Blumenthal

chant: "We need a _ floppy; We need a _ floppy!" Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the — Karen Blumenthal

We give this practice two thumbs down! — Richard Blumenthal

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs. — Heston Blumenthal

On page 603 it is stated that at first Blumenthal could not remember the lunch with me and my wife at which he had loudly impugned two female witnesses against Clinton. This makes it distinctly odd that he should have such have a vivid and detailed but mistaken recollection of the same lunch on page 607. — Christopher Hitchens

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

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

Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change. — Brett Blumenthal

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

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

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards. — Heston Blumenthal

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. — Sidney Blumenthal

would announce that NeXT was bringing the world a breakthrough. But the customers didn't follow and NeXT wasn't close to making a profit, which companies must do to thrive and grow. At a board meeting in spring 1991, company officials delivered more bad news about poor results. Investor Ross Perot interrupted the presentation with a blunt assessment: "So what you're telling me is the cockpit's on fire and the plane's in a tailspin. — Karen Blumenthal

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal

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

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism. — Sidney Blumenthal