Jamie Oliver

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Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Jumping
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I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Thinking
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My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Cute
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40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Mistake
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If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Nice
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The future is about a plant-based diet.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Plant
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The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Motivational
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The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Community
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Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Faith
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I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Country
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But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Fire
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There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Problem
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Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Children
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Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Dog
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From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Age
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I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Father
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I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Powerful
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As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Laughing
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Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Children
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Now, everyone is excited about food - cooking, growing, learning - watching it on TV, buying books, trying things at home. It's the greatest time ever to be in food - which is why it's so hard to see so many people still relying on processed food. I am hoping that we had a generational blip - and that these young people will continue on and pass on their love of food and creativity to the next generation of kids.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Book
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Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Kids
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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Honesty
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Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Men
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I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.
- Jamie Oliver
Collection: Children