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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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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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 complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
