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"When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power."

Julia Child on Power

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  • "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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  • "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

    Margaret Thatcher on Power

  • "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

    Bruce Lee on Power

  • "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

  • "Character is power."

    Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Julia Child

  • "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time."

  • "Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe."

  • "In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

  • "In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking."

  • "I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything."

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