A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2021 source ↗
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
Their inability to deal with my disorganisation.
People who aren’t kind enough.
Caring too much about what others think.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
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I decided that my attention would be in the dining room. I haven’t cooked in 28 years at Chez Panisse. ... I didn’t intend to be out of the kitchen. ... Now I’m in a different world and I contribute to the collaboration of the kitchen and I’m always working with a group of colleagues who inspire me, but I really miss being actually in the solving of the performance, that effort to really come up with dishes that are delicious and right.
Peacefully, knowing I’ll be composted in a mushroom suit.
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
I believe that that is a fast-food myth to get us out there buying whatever they’re selling because I know that beans and greens are very, very affordable.
Shopping at the organic farmers market, buying whatever’s in season that looks the ripest and most vibrant, and bringing it home to cook with my friends.
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