Marco Pierre White vs. Abraham Lincoln
Read 13 entries attributed to Marco Pierre White alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 13 entries attributed to Marco Pierre White alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: truth, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Marco Pierre White, entry #155396: "Most chefs, unfortunately, cook by numbers. It doesn't come from within. Molecular cuisine is basically branding food. There's nothing new to it. Its foundation is still classical."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #169: "They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."
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Marco Pierre White
1961
Marco Pierre White is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995, he became the first British chef, and at age 33 the youngest chef at the time, to be awarded three Michelin stars. White trained a generation of prominent chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry.
"Most chefs, unfortunately, cook by numbers. It doesn't come from within. Molecular cuisine is basically branding food. There's nothing new to it. Its foundat…"
#friendship"It is only by growing to know yourself that you do things for the right reasons and maybe have a chance to be really happy and realise your true potential as…"
#truth"Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she i…"
#truth"To start giving three stars straight away from year one makes you question Michelin and its value – they dish out stars like confetti now."
#art"Cooking should be a way of life—an extension of oneself—never a job."
#life"Success is born out of arrogance."
#life"As far as I'm concerned, if someone is paying a huge amount of money to come to your restaurant and eat your food, then you have a duty to be in the kitchen."
#money"Cooking is a philosophy, it's not a recipe. Unless it's pastry, then it's chemistry."
#philosophy"Apply the cook's brain and visualize that fried egg on the plate. Do you want it to be burned around the edges? Do you want to see craters on the egg white? …"
#life"Great chefs have three things in common. The first is the understanding that mother nature is the true artist and they are the cook. The second is that every…"
#wisdom"When I made the decision to retire, I had three options. The first option was, I don't retire, I stay in the kitchen, I continue to work six or seven days a …"
#family"It's very important to me that I share my story, and my knowledge and my philosophy. A story is more important than a recipe. A recipe can confuse you, but a…"
#knowledge"Most of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance."
#historyAbraham Lincoln
1744 – 1786
Abraham Lincoln (1809) was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."
#Politics"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the cou…"
#Epistemology"A stanza of Lincoln's "On Seduction" (1837-39) as conveyed by James H. Matheny (1865 or 1866)"
#Politics"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed…"
#Metaphysics"Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest a…"
#Politics"They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to in…"
#Politics"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
#Politics"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough t…"
#Epistemology"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
#Politics"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called up…"
#Politics"There is a falsehood wrapped up in that statement. "In the struggle between the white man and the negro" assumes that there is a struggle, in which either th…"
#nature"All portions of this confederacy should act in harmony and with careful deliberation. The Democrats cry John Brown invasion. We are guiltless of it, but our …"
#freedom"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and s…"
#nature"And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State government in relation to the freed people of such S…"
#knowledge"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
#time"The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There a…"
#truth"I propose now closing up by requesting you play a certain piece of music or a tune. I thought "Dixie" one of the best tunes I ever heard... I had heard our a…"
#justice"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
"And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georg…"
#politics"To us it appears natural to think that slaves are human beings; men, not property; that some of the things, at least, stated about men in the Declaration of …"
#freedom