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" I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. "
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Cook
Real
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" Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once. "
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" From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. "
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Goddess
Simple
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" I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't. "
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" I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. "
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Seafood
I Love
" People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. "
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Someone
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" Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once. "
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Roses
Flowers
Me
" I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. "
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" It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy. "
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Matter
Long
" I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little. "
Padma Lakshmi
Life
My Life
Look
" I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans. "
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Successful
Way
Lucky
" All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. "
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You
Want
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" Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. "
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Think
Tea
" Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try. "
Padma Lakshmi
Try
Back
Country
" The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? "
Padma Lakshmi
Beautiful
Body
Best
" I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear. "
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Nothing
Possible
Am
" I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. "
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Lunch
Her
She
" If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine. "
Padma Lakshmi
Phone
Learn
Wine
" I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. "
Padma Lakshmi
Sleep
Leaning
Like
" I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it. "
Padma Lakshmi
Know
People
Thought
" My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. "
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Now
Old
New
" During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. "
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Top
Two
Used
" I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. "
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Great
Direction
" Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. "
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Just
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Every
" For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person. "
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Me
Long
Happy
" I'm not tough. I'm tenacious. "
Padma Lakshmi
Tough
Tenacious
" Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. "
Padma Lakshmi
Think
Luxury
Love
" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "
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Think
Food
Always
" I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide. "
Padma Lakshmi
Character
Me
Better
" I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. "
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Know
People
Romantic
" You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree. "
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