Paula Deen Quotes
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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.
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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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I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.
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I is what I is, and I'm not changing.
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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.
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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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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.
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You can't make stuffing with sweet cornbread.
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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.
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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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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!
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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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A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.
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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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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.
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I am proud to be a Southerner.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.
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