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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

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Woman, Where, Also, Stacked

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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Jewelry, Singing, Area, Highlight

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.

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Vain, Like, Immediately, Raw

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.

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My Life, Lucky, Very, Attached

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

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Memory, Kid, Taste, Pickle

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.

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Modeling, Country, Spice, Suitcase

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.

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Love, Think, Always, Understated

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

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Sometimes, Like, Very, Detox

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

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Love, Before, About, Good Friend

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

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Feel, Other, Whole, Aunts

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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Happy, Long, Desperate, Organically

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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Think, Right, I Think, Sensuality

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

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How, Cut, Precisely, Chewing

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

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Shower, Belly, Itches, Ceremony

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

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Before, Very, Half, Only Time

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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Jewelry, Want, Like, Wind

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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Love, Think, Always, Fashionable

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

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Privacy, Want, About, Respectful

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

- Padma Lakshmi

Away, Line, Very, Right Away

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

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Career, Paris, New, Indian

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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Die, Lovely, Consumed, Roses

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

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Think, Big, I Think, Wine

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.

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Why, Another, About, Wine

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

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Think, Romance, Surrounded, 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.

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Woman, Like, Use, Leaning

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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New, Times Square, Still, Scared

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

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Trump, Donald, Ours, None

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

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Love, Became, Flaming, Temple

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

- Padma Lakshmi

Tell, I Think, Ninety, Well Enough

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

- Padma Lakshmi

Want, Jewish, Like, Eagerness

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