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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Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
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I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.
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I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
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I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
