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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• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• 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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fear
  • Play
  • Come

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• 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.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Time
  • Think
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Lies

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • World
  • Mind

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Kids
  • College

• I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • School
  • Door
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Family
  • Door
  • Profound