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When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. -- Ina Garten
I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. -- Ina Garten
You can be barefoot and have worries. -- Brigitte Bardot
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. -- John Updike
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. -- Phyllis Diller
You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different. -- Michael Franti
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- Jacob Bronowski
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy. -- Yanni
When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard. -- Haile Gebrselassie
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake. -- David Guetta
Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw. -- Steven Tyler
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. -- Zola Budd
I no longer run barefoot. -- Zola Budd
Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place. -- Sabrina Ward Harrison
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head) -- Brian Aldiss
You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking. -- Ruth Reichl
[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher. -- Bunker Roy
Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal. -- Stephanie Tourles
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip -- William Shakespeare
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books. -- Oprah Winfrey
My friends call me Two Socks Kintz. They used to call me Barefoot Orafoura, but then someone gave me some socks. That was mighty kind of them. -- Jarod Kintz
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. -- Sissy Spacek
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. -- George Bernard Shaw
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious. -- Carolyn Murphy
Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert. -- Glen Robinson
I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. -- James Kavanaugh
I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen. -- Debi Mazar
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. -- Billy Collins
Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world. -- Angelina Jolie
To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't. -- Michael Josephson
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama. -- Rod Carew
I always like to sing barefoot. -- Idina Menzel
I'm either in heels or barefoot. -- Christina Hendricks
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. -- Annie Lennox
I don't walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street... I'm like, 'Really?' But obviously, I can't judge someone for that first impression. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those. -- Ryan Reynolds
I've been barefoot most of my life: either flip flops or barefoot on the pool deck. Although you'd think that would make me a good candidate for barefoot running, that doesn't work with me. -- Summer Sanders
I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track. -- Zola Budd
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels. -- Idina Menzel
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. -- Mandy Moore
You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again. -- Bunker Roy
When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. -- Jennifer Hudson
I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house. -- Miranda Kerr
You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism. -- Bunker Roy
Better a barefoot than none. -- George Herbert
Being barefoot makes me feel vulnerable. -- Kelly Stables
He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot. -- Benjamin Franklin
Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. -- George Herbert
If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot. -- Tamora Pierce
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot. -- Benjamin Franklin
Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. -- John Heywood
The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes. -- Troy Polamalu
I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years. -- Isabel Lucas
I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. -- Nelly Furtado
I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more. -- Elle King
Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand. -- Elvis Presley
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos. -- Tony Kornheiser
go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep -- Nikki Giovanni
I just kick off my shoes, walk around barefoot, I don't care if my feet get dirty. -- Christina Aguilera
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child. -- Van Morrison
When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird. -- Danny Pudi
You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard. -- Carolyn Murphy
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that. -- Jeff Jarrett
Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot. -- J. Ruth Gendler
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl. -- Agnes Repplier
Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars. -- Paullina Simons
I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up. -- Edie Falco
I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl. -- Grace Gealey
She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh. -- Amy Grant
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot. -- Anthony Wayne
I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird? -- Peter Facinelli
In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious. -- Carolyn Murphy
Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy. -- Jack Benny
When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it. -- Evangeline Lilly
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas. -- Maya Angelou
What?â? I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them. -- Karen Chance

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