Quotes by Paula Deen - Page 2

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen / Chef
Dream
Alive
American Dream
Hard
Living Proof
Proof
Sleeves
Willing
Work I Am Your
Living
American
Roll
Exists
Still
Trick
Well
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You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.
Paula Deen / Chef
Nuts
People
Up North
Love Good Myself
Dressing
Fruits
Personally
Stuffing
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I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!
Paula Deen / Chef
Chocolate
Dark
Hershey
Nasty
Taste
Wine
Love Good Me
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Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.
Paula Deen / Chef
Cooking
Fabulous
Kitchen
One Day
Smell
Good Cooking Your
Good Your Day
Bacon
In Fact
Smells
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I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
Paula Deen / Chef
Buying
Distracted
Gadgets
Guilty
Nice
Orderly
Trying
I Am Sometimes Way
Stick
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Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.
Paula Deen / Chef
Busy
Growing Up
If I Could
Kitchen
Mama
School
Social Life
Sophomore
Life Busy Me
Cook
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I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?
Paula Deen / Chef
Balance
Eating
Ham
What If
Greens
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You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
Paula Deen / Chef
Kids
Bills
Feeding
Pay
Wine
Worry
Afford
Bottle
Cook
Paying
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I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.
Paula Deen / Chef
Hospitality
Nice
Savannah
Southern
Southerner
Sweet
Term
Thinking
Exists
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I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!
Paula Deen / Chef
Cheese
Cream
Magic
Secret
Sour
Southern
Version
Ingredient
Uses
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I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Paula Deen / Chef
House
Kitchen
Long
Mama
Me Long Day
Long Me Day
Cook
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I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!
Paula Deen / Chef
Delicious
Delicious Food
Differences
Items
People
Thinking
Good Food People
Help People
Make A Difference
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When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
Paula Deen / Chef
Done
Feelings
Hopelessness
People
Terrible
Hope Done People
Destroy
The One Thing
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Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!
Paula Deen / Chef
Cooking
Grit
Instant
Long
Love Long Never
Cook
Quick
Some Things
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Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.
Paula Deen / Chef
Giving Up
Goal
People
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I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.
Paula Deen / Chef
Albany
Bells
Needed
Red
Rice
Sausage
Tomatoes
White
Bell
Mixture
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Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
Paula Deen / Chef
Dishes
Grandmother
Mama
Recipes
Southern
Years
Adding
Touch
Lighter
Shared
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I pay people very, very well - probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I'm not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don't go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.
Paula Deen / Chef
Running
Higher
Long
People
Seeking
Scale
Money Me Long
Less Money
Long Run
Restaurant
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In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.
Paula Deen / Chef
Dream
New Year
Celebration
Games
Viewers
Years
Bowl
Grand
Marshal
Parade
Ringing
Sharing
Worldwide
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I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.
Paula Deen / Chef
Morning
Bed
Blessed
Blessing
Every Night
Wake Up
Store
Wake
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The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.
Paula Deen / Chef
Kids
Deer
Eating
Peter
Restaurants
Squirrels
Thinking
Appeal
Bambi
Rabbit
Serve
Table
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If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.
Paula Deen / Chef
Stones
Want
Wish
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I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval.
Paula Deen / Chef
Approval
Dentist
Drilling
Felt
Giving
Glad
Light
Littles
Teeth
Wonderful
Oh
Cookie
How Many Times
Immediate
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There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Paula Deen / Chef
Able
Daddy
Fashion
Folks
Form
Left
Legacy
One Thing
People
Rude
Tolerate
Turns
Unkind
Somebody
Buy
Shape
Treat
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I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
Paula Deen / Chef
Biscuits
Broccoli
Fried Chicken
Garden
Thinking
Vegetables
Life Love Always
Big Part
Chicken
Tremendous
Foods
Fried
Tremendous Amount
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In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
Paula Deen / Chef
Morning
Bird
Cooking
Dinner
Fried Chicken
Giving
Goodness
Order
Preparing
Salt
Chicken
Fried
Wait
Pepper
Refrigerator
Season
Soak
Throw
Wash
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I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
Paula Deen / Chef
Morning
Cooking
Country
Hungry
Meat
Partners
Wake Up
Years
Banks
Bringing
Contribute
Fed
Help People
Wake
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We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.
Paula Deen / Chef
Hunger
Promise
Recurring
Take Care
Somewhere
Feed
Cure
Million People
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The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
Paula Deen / Chef
Diet
Bed
Calories
Consuming
Drank
Drinking
Empty
Giving Up
Lunchtime
Staggering
Sugar
Sweet
Tea
Calculate
First Thing
Glass
The First Thing
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Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.
Paula Deen / Chef
Media
Ties
White
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Working with family is probably one of the hardest things in business, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. You have to be very, very careful that you don't overstep the boundaries that you wouldn't with anyone else. Sometimes, we think that the unconditional love they have for us makes overstepping boundaries alright. It's really not. You have to work harder to not damage the family dynamic. That lasts forever.
Paula Deen / Chef
Unconditional Love
Forever
Hard Work
Thinking
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I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.
Paula Deen / Chef
Kids
Hard Work
Heart
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It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Paula Deen / Chef
House
Long
School
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