Mario Batali Quotes
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.
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I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.
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We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.
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Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
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They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.
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Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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David Harrington asked me to write a piece for Kronos Quartet for a performance in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I live just two blocks from the park and spend many mornings running around it. The park for me symbolizes much of what I love about New York, especially the stunning diversity of Brooklyn with its myriad cultures and communities.
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No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
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We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
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Spaghetti is love.
