Marco Pierre White Quotes

Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.

We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.