Mario Batali Quotes
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
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Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.
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I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
