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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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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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.
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That's what fame is: solitude.
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Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.
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We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there with Bernard Leach.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
