Mario Batali Quotes
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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My record speaks for itself.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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I have no literary fears.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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I'm a worrier by nature.
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
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My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
