Paula Deen: 83 Quotes by the Chef

Chef
born 1947
83 quotes

Paula Deen, a chef (born 1947), is quoted 83 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are People, Two, Way and Dream.

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Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.
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Tacky

Talking

Talking About Money
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You can't make stuffing with sweet cornbread.
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Cornbread

Sweet
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I am proof that the American dream still exists.
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Dream

Deen

Proof
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Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
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Inspirational

Funny Love

Real
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I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.
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Generous

Has Beens
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You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.
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Cooks

Knows

Mama

Cook
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Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.
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Romantic

Contagious

Love Is

Romance
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I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.
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Determine

I Can

Persons
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There's so much going on. I almost never have a moment.
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It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.
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Amazing

Deen

Feels

Moving

Getting

Makes
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Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.
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Life Is Too Short

Waffles

Wonder
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We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.
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Brother

Keepers
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Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.
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Dirt

Everyday

Wake Up
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I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.
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Choke

Cost

Tongue
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I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.
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Beach

Religious

Spiritual
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I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
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Cooks

Disorganized

Mess

Cook
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Chicken breast is the driest, [most] tasteless part of the chicken as far as I'm concerned.
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Breasts

Chickens

Concerned
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.
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Eating

Molecules

Use
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You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.
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Cake

Pieces

Whole
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I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
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Good Food

Pie

Want

Life Good Food

Hole

Spend
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Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.
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Desire

Small Steps

Steps In The Right Direction
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I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.
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Positive

Approach

Determined

Share

Way

Life My Life Way

Stand

Positive Life My Life

Enjoying

My Life
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Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.
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Brain

Mouths

Tongue
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You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
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Diet

Chickens

Fried Chicken

Lettuce

Steady

Want

Chicken

Fried
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I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
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Believe

Living My Life

Way
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Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
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Kind

Seasoning

Way

Way Never Us

Afraid

Southerners
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I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.
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Care

Littles

Take Care

Two

Life Myself Day

Mile

Treadmill
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I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
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Funny

Care

Don't Care

Hater

Laughing

Funny Me Laugh

Say

Haters

Laugh
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You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.
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Journey

Risk

Winning
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Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.
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Ham

Pigs

Vegetables

Somewhere

Hidden

Pig

Vegetable
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I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.
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Football

Names

Player
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There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.
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Children

Giving

Wings
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Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.
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Cooking

Fire

Thinking
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I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.
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Hot

May

Thinking
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On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.
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Fattening

Moderation

People

Pie

Recipes

Yummy

Little Piece
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It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.
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Black

People

Redneck
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I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.
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Gracious

Hungry

Invited

Prepared
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.
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Eating

Plastic

Type

Butter

Deal

Substitute

Food Eating Real

Molecule

Real Deal
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Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.
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Electrical

Energy

Fellowship

People

Time Great Me

Feed

Great Time

Outlet

Plugging
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There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
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Four

Months

Past
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There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
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Causes

Diabetes

Overweight

Grips
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If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.
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Opportunity

Eye

Ideas
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People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.
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Cooking

Dishes

Entertainment

Fattening

People

Southern

Two

Me Day People

Wonderfully
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I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
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Equal

Life God Believe
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